Noe Venable's trio-- violin, acoustic bass, guitar, performs a dexterous live set, coaxing a slow surrender to the singer's charismatic voice (and her visions of sweet apocalypse). This album's final 15 minutes-- beginning with "Aren't Captives," in which a doomed Cessna pilot ponders his unborn children "towing behind us / like balloons tied to our ankles / they aren't captives / just clouds"-- make up an existential manifesto. "I'm Sad Too" is a fanciful suicide tale in which "the twilight says, 'I'm outta here'/ and the evening says 'I know'". The title track finds its heartbroken subject "drunk as a car crash" and bracing for the final swoon. (Adam Savetsky)
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