Style: Quirky indie rock; compare to Deerhoof, The Welcome Wagon, Half Handed Cloud
Top tracks: "You Sleep Good Now," "This Day Is a Loaf," "Lil Norge"
Best of Gloucester County is Danielson's most accessible release to date. Frontman Daniel Smith has embraced the virtue of restraint, improving his already seminal gospel-indie-pop repertoire. What was discordant clatter 17 years ago now sounds like artfully developed composition. On "Grow Up" Smith sings of his maturity, "My social life's gone and I'm mowing my lawn / When I should be up on that stage, with the glitz and my rage." Not unlike the very trajectory of Danielson, Best of Gloucester County is quirky initially, but calms down midway through, hushing ever quieter until a most satisfying end.
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A recent call to investigate the Executive Committee over abuse responses is the latest issue up for debate. Opposing factions in the SBC both say its future is at stake.
The Unearthed Conscience of Black FundamentalismA hard racial line divided conservative white and Black Protestants 100 years ago. It didn’t have to be that way.
But majority declines to revisit rules for religious accommodation, over protests from justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch.
