The Low Anthem: Oh My God, Charlie Darwin

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This album, Oh My God, Charlie Darwin, is beautiful. The new long-play offering from Providence, RI based trio The Low Anthem explores changing times, places, love, and loss over the course of its 42 minutes. While sonically better than their previous work, the group also built upon their songwriting, starting with the album openers "Charlie Darwin" and "To Ohio". Both quiet mood setters, they lay the framework for what is, mostly, a haunting, late night mix of tunes featuring sparse, organic instrumental arrangements and wonderful harmonies. That is not to say that the album is boring. On the contrary, the bar-room stomp of "The Horizon Is A Beltway" and "Champion Angel" serve well to keep things varied, offering a growl one wouldn’t guess to be coming from the same voices.  The placement of these tracks, however, may be the only downfall on this otherwise impeccably crafted album – interrupting the album’s lullaby with an abrupt jolt. If that’s the worst thing about it, The Low anthem should be plenty proud of this one, as it should take them far.

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