…The new edition was remastered at Abbey Road Studios.
John Darnielle is a compulsive writer forever clutching his stomach as songs pour out uncontrollably into whatever recording device is in front of him. What sets him apart from other prolific artists in the indie rock world (Conor Oberst, Ryan Adams, Stephin Merritt) whose records and side projects can’t keep up with the flow of their pens is his almost alarming gift for pairing quantity with quality. After dropping the devastating Tallahassee — a record that followed in gory detail the imagined demise of a Florida couple’s marriage — in 2002, he turned his focus inward, taking an almost autobiographical stance on the follow-up, We Shall All Be Healed,…

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