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Jolie Holland: Pint of Blood

Steven Rosen, American Songwriter, June 2011

LIKE THE LIGHTNING BUG she sings about on Pint of Blood — in a hauntingly poetic image on the song 'Gold and Yellow' — Jolie Holland's unusual voice can be both mesmerizing and easy to overlook. Like a flickering light, it unexpectedly swoops and increases in intensity, then recedes and fades, her words and diction slipping in and out of volume and urgency.

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