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‘Passages and Partings’ album review on Rambles.net

Thanks to Jerome Clark for reviewing ‘Passages and Partings’ for Rambles.net!

“Verch’s own compositions, moreover, are hard to distinguish from their traditional models. It may be a cliche — well, it is a cliche — to remark that Verch gives the impression of being something of an old soul. (As the father of a daughter who is herself one, I think I recognize the species.) This, I might add, in spite of a voice that one might expect to be attached to someone with fewer years on her than Verch’s. In any event, nothing about her feels native to the current century. Rather, if someone told you she’d arrived intact from rural Canada as it existed in a 1950s lost world, you’d be hard-pressed to argue the contrary.”

Read the full review here!