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Greetings from Michigan: The Great Lake State
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Greetings from Michigan: The Great Lake State
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Greetings from Michigan: The Great Lake State
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's third album is a charming homage to his home state of Michigan. Filled with heartbreak, the album cryptically addresses
' frustration with the notorious job market in the city of Flint in a lovely
that opens the record, and documents the depressing struggle the city of Detroit has fought to once again attain the elegance it had prior to the riots in the late '60s; however, it also touches on a brighter side, as in the cascading
Its title is a reference to the campaign adopted by the state in the 1980s and serves as the centerpiece as well as
' attachment and amour for the state he is from. Musically,
often plays his
and
cards, riffing along with complex polyphony in building loops and dynamics, but he also frequently imports lightly strummed guitars and stark banjo picking to break up the album and give it a rustic northern
aesthetic.
comfortably handles nearly every instrument on the album -- an impressive task that includes various keyboards, woodwinds, guitars, and percussions -- but also enlisted the help of
,
, and
from
to help out with vocal duties, and the outcome is a haunting and hypnotic studio opus certainly worth getting lost in. ~ Gregory McIntosh