Blog: One Sweet Song

John Vanderslice released a new record, Romanian Names , yesterday. While I basically agree with Tiny Mix Tape's review , there are plenty of great tracks on this album, which of course has been on repeat for me since I got it. And, although the songwriting has turned slightly back toward the personal/fictional and away from the political, there are still touches of awareness thrown in (DIALO, for example) and as always, many of the stories are set clearly against the background of our modern globalized American landscape. This is something that JV has [...]

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