Three Rivers by Hemlock Sun

Three Rivers feels like a house concert Hemlock Sun frontman Noah DeRosier has put on just for you. The instruments played are what were lying around the living room when he came over, and the sound is structured but informal--almost as if you could pick up a mandolin or tambourine and join in. But then, like a streak of dusty yellow light, the fact becomes clear that these songs are exquisitely planned and practiced; that each crystallizes in a striking, piercing revelation of emotion that is as precise as it is expressive. With simple--even antique--acoustic tools Hemlock Sun first reaches, and then opens the very the clouds that you've spent your life watching.

In these transcendent, fleeting moments of access, Hemlock Sun opens and closes on themes of loss, of love, and another possible world. The light is as bright, kind and unequivocal as the sun itself.

Favorite track: "Suddenly Free"
Living rent-free in our head: "In the Long Run" and "The Whole Truth"

--The Paso County Pickle

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