“The best songs on the Vermonter’s second album are suffused with the same oversized emotions as his debut, but they’re leaner, punchier, and brighter patchworks of epic build-ups and breakdowns that would do the late Mark Linkous proud.”
“The Vermont singer’s pretty great second album has got wit, romance, and sublime songwriting. It’s an unassuming collection of tunes that belongs in the heartland slacker rock canon.”
“The Bethesda, Maryland native left his home state and moved to Burlington, Vermont at the age of 18. Burnover, the follow-up to his critically-acclaimed 2022 debut, I Looked Out, is informed by the desire to grasp the idea of belonging somewhere far from your roots. Rather than writing about himself and his surroundings, however, Freeman took inspiration from the places around Vermont and the folk”