The Coincidentalist

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AlbumNov 04 / 201311 songs, 36m 4s
Alt-Country

The Coincidentalist is Howe Gelb's first solo album since 2011's Alegrias, and his debut for New West Records.

8 / 10

Given the frequency of his releases, it's easy to look at Howe Gelb's catalogue as a work-in-progress, with each album offering merely a gli...

6.0 / 10

Gelb's voice here is smooth and whisky-soaked to the point of parody. "It used to be much cheaper/To find a love and keep her," he intones over a smooth lounge jazz piano and drums on the album's opening track, and the whiff of forced nostalgia never diss

7 / 10