“2008’s Little Honey was Williams at her most content. But on her 10th disc, she revives the literary realism that’s turned so many of her songs into true-talk crushers. The quietly heartbreaking "Soldier’s Song" is an imagining of home from the front lines, and even humid evocations of romantic awakening (like the soul study "Kiss […]”
“Two decades into her career, the singer-songwriter continues to evolve, but here she struggles to transcend cliché.”
