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When We Are Inhuman - Bonnie "Prince" Billy/Bryce Dessner
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  1. Beast for Thee
  2. Down in the Willow Garden
  3. New Partner
  4. Underneath the Floorboards
  5. One with the Birds
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  1. Beast for Thee
  2. Down in the Willow Garden
  3. New Partner
  4. Underneath the Floorboards
  5. One with the Birds
  6. When Thy Song
  7. Banks of Red Roses
  8. Stay on It
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When We Are Inhuman is a dense but not complicated collaboration between Bonnie "Prince" Billy, the National's Bryce Dessner, and the contemporary classical outfit Eighth Blackbird. Split between old Will Oldham songs and murder ballads drawn from Dessner's ongoing excavation project, When We Are Inhuman has the bones of folk tunes but an urbane presentation. It's prickly and provocative, even when the melodies are gently lulling. This tension between the past and present lends the album some life, and even if the record ...

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