The fourth album from Rosie Thomas, with immeasurable assists from Sufjan Stevens and Denison Witmer, reflects compatibility and creative amiability. Modesty amplifies those qualities: Stevens and Witmer contentedly hold background roles and let Thomas tell her stories in a voice […]
If there’s a particular criticism to be leveled at Rosie Thomas’ previous albums, it’s that the sense of melancholy which pervades them can sometimes wear thin. Favoring languid tempos and singing in a delicate voice filled with folkie yearning, Thomas […]
It’s the catch in the voice; the catch that’s not quite a hiccup, not a cry, but an achingly lovely double-clutch, a double negative making odd of even, that makes Rosie Thomas’ unguarded vocals so compelling. It is precisely this […]
