"Het met een Grammy-nominatie voor beste folkplaat onderscheiden debuut Bonny Light Horseman uit 2020 kende een met Hiss Golden Messenger gecomponeerd lied en voor de rest bewerkte songs, afkomstig uit de rijkgevulde schatkamers met Ierse, Britse en Amerikaanse folk. Rolling Golden Holy staat vol met eigen materiaal, zij het dat twee tracks geïnspireerd zijn door traditionals. Behalve alt.folk is er Crosby, Stills & Nash-achtige Americana (het mede door Johnson gezongen Gone By Fall) en aan Fleetwood Mac verwante pop (Someone To Weep For Me). Wat gebleven is, is het hoge peil van de songs, die aantrekkelijk zijn gearrangeerd en gloriëren door voorbeeldige (samen)zang." (OOR)|
With "Xoa", Mitchell is going back to basics. "Xoa" is a fifteen-track solo collection. It includes rerecorded songs up to ten years old; several from "Hadestown" (recorded in her own voice for the first time); as well as some completely new and previously unrecorded songs. They were taped during two sessions in Nashville with engineer/producer Gary Paczosa, who produced "Child Ballads". She sees the project as a correspondence between herself and her audience, especially those familiar with her songs from way back. Paczosa has a gift for capturing the female voice and directing the ear to the lyric line. If there's a common thread in Mitchell's writingand the breadth of it is represented well on "Xoa" -- it's that she's as interested in the world around her as the one inside her. She has a way of tackling big themes with the same emotional intimacy most artists use to describe their inner lives. (bron: Anaïs Mitchell)
"Anaïs Mitchell is a bundle of contradictions. She has the earthiness of Shawn Colvin, the child-like bite of Joanna Newsom, and the urban jumpiness of Ani DiFranco. Her lyrics are sprinkled with rosy similes, while they simultaneously touch on everything from politics to literature to mythology. These elements, as disparate as they might seem, come together nicely. This is, granted, incredibly earnest music, but it's hard to hold that against Mitchell given how well she writes, how honest she is, and how far she's come in such a short period of time." (Margaret Reges, Allmusic)
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