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This spare, minimalist approach to the music creates a bare, autumnal album that’s at once soothing, depressing and—unfortunately—less than gripping. Johnson’s husky growl reverberates around Molina’s baleful, tremulous cry and the two voices combine to...
Many of the tracks are more blues than they are country. “All Gone, All Gone,” is about as dismal as the title would suggest. It features a duet between Johnson and Texas songsmith Sarah Jaffe over a plodding guitar line that sounds as if...
Molina & Johnson struggle with the limitations of their chosen genre, however, occasionally exhausting their limited supply of musical and thematic tropes. Indicative of the album’s primary shortcoming, “In the Avalon/Little Killer” is a maudlin piano ballad that falls short of the powerful...
In terms of insincerity, the Massachusetts government has met Hollywood halfway. In an effort to drum up business, Massachusetts has sold itself to products it has no control over and, for better or for worse, could suffer from false advertising. At the same time, Hollywood seems to be selling out...
What’s more is that a recent Massachusetts Department of Revenue report stated that the tax break program is not nearly as economically simulative as once thought. In what looks to be quite unfair to Massachusetts taxpayers, the government is only receiving about 16 cents on the dollar...