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vinyl LP Pressing of one of 2020's best albums
Even as our ever-changing technology helps rapidly push music forward, sometimes the best ideas come from looking backwards. Bonny Light Horseman -- the trio of Anais Mitchell, Eric D Johnson (Fruit Bats), and Josh Kaufman -- found their inspiration in traditional folk songs, and these decades- or even centuries-old tunes informed one of the most unique albums of the year. Folk rock bands reworking traditional music is not a new idea, but Bonny Light Horseman reinvent the art, sounding more like the atmospheric folk of Bon Iver (whose Justin Vernon appears on this album) or Fleet Foxes than Fairport Convention. Their arrangements of these songs are usually drastically different than any other version you've heard, and the album also has original material worked in so seamlessly that you can barely remember which parts they wrote from scratch and which parts they didn't.