Music Review

Album Review: 'Things We Lost in the Fire' (2012)

EW's GRADE
A-

Details Lead Performance: Low

Advancing from slo-core to just plain beautiful, husband-and-wife leaders Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker build their latest around carefully harmonized vocals and pellucid guitar hooks that rarely lapse into merely languid melodies. Call it sly-core -- one murmured tune, ''Dinosaur Act,'' deftly summarizes the plight of due-for-extinction rock, while the other scenarios take on the urgency of vivid dreams. A-

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Originally posted Feb 16, 2001 Published in issue #582 Feb 16, 2001 Order article reprints

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