This is the album that Miranda Stone should have made a long time ago, and hopefully is the album that will get her noticed a bit more by the listening public. For the past few years our favorite folk-punk from Canada has been putting out discs and hitting the club circuit, but over the past year she's been expanding her reach, and Seven Deadly Sins is her first full-length studio release. And what a release it is!
With her trademark delivery that is most reminiscent of Ani DiFranco, Stone has put together her best effort to date. With themes of faith, grace, sin, and redemption, she offers an interesting take on these Christian themes without falling into clichés.
The disc starts off strongly with "20/20 in the Morning," a song about regrets. On "Remedy" she delivers a soul-ful song that sounds a lot like some of Ashley Cleveland's best work. Throughout the disc, Stone's own brand of folk includes touches of blues and country, and she can rock out when she feels like it. And she even gets this year's award for hippest song title with "Emotions are a School Bus with a Drunkard at the Wheel."
This is a marvelous disc from a fantastic singer/songwriter who is at the top of her game. Expect big things.
4.5 tocks
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