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- Summary: The latest full-length release from singer-songwriter Beverly Glenn-Copeland features his wife Elizabeth Glenn-Copeland.
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- Record Label: Transgressive
- Genre(s): Alternative, Pop/Rock, Alternative Singer/Songwriter
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Feb 6, 2026It’s not depressing in the slightest – in fact, these beautifully austere, tender songs are life-affirming if anything – but like the final albums by Glenn Campbell and Warren Zevon, the knowledge that mortality is drawing close gives the album an extra weight.
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Mar 10, 2026Nine illuminating piano-backed movements.
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Feb 6, 2026The whole record contains this sense of purity, the songs sitting somewhere between hymns and nursery rhymes, not just in their simplicity but in the sense they seem to have always existed.
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Feb 6, 2026Imaginative, poignant and fundamentally, achingly human. [Feb 2026, p.30]
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Feb 6, 2026Despite its many strengths, the rest of the album can’t help but feel like a gradual comedown from such a monumental start, but the sincerity and warmth of Glenn-Copeland’s deceptively simple songs is never in doubt.
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The WireFeb 24, 2026Glenn's rich, wordless vocal melody becomes a trellis for the winding vine of Elizabeth's vibrato as she sings the arc of a blooming romance. The mood is joyfully bittersweet, basking in the glow of a shared life which, like all living things, must end. [Mar 2026, p.49]
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Feb 12, 2026Laughter in Summer could so easily have been dismissed as a throwaway indulgence, sentimental and self-important. But there’s no dismissing this voice, wearing a life on its sleeve.