Why We Build the Wall (feat. Greg Brown) by Anaïs Mitchell
“it's a bit rough to pluck one track out of a concept album (a folk opera, if you will) but gosh, what an album”
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it's a bit rough to pluck one track out of a concept album (a folk opera, if you will) but gosh, what an album
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I do love a musical based on the Orpheus myth. All two of the ones I've seen I loved anyway. Hadestown wins though because POLITICS and POVERTY and that.
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I'm largely over the "folk indie rock" phase of my life but seriously, a concept album about a dystopian version of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice? C'moooooon.
gives me chills!
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Such a haunting song, one of my new favourites.
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