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The Sparrow And The Crow in the Independent on Sunday


06 December 2009
Independent on Sunday
Simmy Richman
4 Stars

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Illinois-based Fitzsimmons'previous album was about his parents' divorce. This one is about his own. It is a late-night-by-candlelight sort of record that, if the phases of grief can loosely be split into shock, denial, anger and acceptance, wallows wonderfully in that final stage. Comparisons to Iron & Wine are inevitable, but what the pair share by way of beard and banjo, they part from by way of broken heart. "We'll love again/ Just noteach other," Fitzsimmons whispers, making it cruel to put out that once again his loss is the listener's gain.


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