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The Civil Wars: The Civil Wars

Holly Gleason, Paste, 6 August 2013

PRESSURE MAKES DIAMONDS — or coal dust. For The Civil Wars, the triple Grammy-winners whose stark acoustica shook pop music, it created both. Amongst their partnership's wreckage, their sophomore album lands, shards of broken relationships, even more extreme folk filigrees and strong strumming to mark the path to implosion.

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