The long-running experimental country outfit's 11th full-length outing, mines the deepest corners of love and loss, offering up 11 lush, string-laden meditations from Kurt Wagner and his cohorts, all of which are dedicated to the late Vic Chesnutt.
Reviews
Uncut (p.76) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "'Gar' is instrumental mood music, with outer-space Beach Boys harmonies." Magnet (p.55) - "The songs are languid, with slow builds and slower resolutions....MR. M's pleasures can be profoundly subtle..." Billboard (p.60) - "[A] lushly orchestrated affair....A collection of modern saloon songs, the slow ballads that pour out with the final shot in the bottle." Paste (magazine) - "[N]o other song grapples with the fragility of life quite like the album's centerpiece 'Mr. Met'..."