Ruminations (Expanded Edition) Digital MP3 Album

Ruminations (Expanded Edition) Digital MP3 AlbumIn the winter of 2016, Conor Oberst found himself hibernating in his hometown of Omaha after living in New York City for more than a decade. He emerged with the unexpectedly raw, unadorned solo album Ruminations. The results are almost sketch like in their sparseness: Oberst alone with his guitar, piano, and harmonica; the songs connect with some of the rough magic and anxious poetry that first brought him to the attention of the world, while their

the art of the singer-songwriter

close-harmony songs that tap into an ageless essence of traditional ballads and lullabies as they contemplate companionship

The New York Times declared Different Trains "a work of such originality that 'breakthrough' seems the only possible description

a step in coping with grief

she assumed the role of producer

The album was recorded in Brooklyn and produced by Beam’s longtime associate Brian Deck

Clint Mansell's haunting score to director Darren Aronofsky's 2000 film Requiem for a Dream

Trinidadian songwriter David Rudder's "The Immigrants

" giving it four stars

" NPR says the album "is just as smart and lovely as its creator

and Pinky Weitzman

Crumb’s title piece