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Pitchfork 7.9/10 Timothy Showalter's fourth album as Strand of Oaks and first for Dead Oceans is an album as memoir: stark and at times emotionally harrowing as it recounts with bracing candor the artist’s struggles with friends, family, and most of all himself.
A.V. Club A “I was born in the middle, maybe too late, everything good had been made,” begins “Shut In,” a mid-album track on Strand Of Oaks’ Heal that sounds like Jim James doing an impression of Bruce Springsteen. The artist behind the project, Tim Showalter, thankfully doesn’t still believe this line. His fifth album as Strand…
The Line of Best Fit 7/10 Coming on like a hairy Care Bear, hirsute songsmith Timothy Showalter's first album in four years offers the listener a shoulder to cry on.
