Josh Garrels: “Love & War & The Sea In Between”

My friend Matt Conner asked me to say something worthwhile about the new Josh Garrels album, and I did my best to oblige. I like the album a great deal, I am somewhat surprised to say; it’s a rather weighty thing, at 18 songs in length, and its conception is a little on the self-serious side, but, shockingly, pretty much all of it works. It’s a striking listen, both one of the year’s most ambitious endeavors and one of its most successful.

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