Willi Carlisle Critterland 12/1/23 Label: Reprise

Label: Reprise

nourishing her spirit with a Southern gospel choir on "Way Down" and finding bittersweet solace on "Twinkle

Songs stretch out longer here than they have on any previous Black Keys LP

Bite marks burn hotter on the live stage

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Willi Carlisle Critterland 12/1/23 Label: RepriseFor folksinger Willi Carlisle, singing is healing. And by singing together, he believes we can begin to reckon with the inevitability of human suffering and grow in love. On Critterland, Carlisle invites audiences to join him: If we allow ourselves to sing together, there's a release of sadness, maybe even a communal one. And so for me personally, singing, like the literal act of thinking through suffering, is really freeing, he says. Rooted in the