motoenby
Toronto, Ontario
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This album shook me deeply and brought me to tears on a bustling rush-hour train. It is the sort of work one must sit with after the first listen: the silence that followed the climactic end of the final track, Magnolias, was jarring.
“Hoy se derrocha, burlando la suerte; y lo que no hice en la vida lo hacéis en mi muerte; tírame magnolias.” Having taken us on a journey of heavenly ascension—full of love and light, of pain and forgiveness, and of hard-earned ... read more
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