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  • Summary: This is the first full-length studio release from Pennsylvania band The Innocence Mission in nearly five years.
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  • Record Label: Bella Union
  • Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Contemporary Singer/Songwriter, Indie Folk
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  1. Positive: 5 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 5
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  1. Dec 20, 2024
    80
    On this exquisite 13th studio album, the sparse instrumentation and soft focus, lo-fi production gives the music an affectingly ethereal, distant quality.
  2. Dec 20, 2024
    80
    The Innocence Mission delivers its tunes with an uncalculated freshness, still innocent, even now.
  3. Uncut
    Dec 20, 2024
    80
    It helps that Karen Peris’s voice continues to convey so much warmth and wonder. Likewise, her lyrics captures the tiniest joys of everyday life in modest but very finely crafted songs. [Jan 2025, p.35]
  4. Mojo
    Dec 20, 2024
    80
    Songs of experience, beautifully realised. [Jan 2025, p.86]
  5. Jan 8, 2025
    80
    Consider Midwinter Swimmers, then, an invitation to reclaim the assured and commonplace language of awe. This is what “beautiful” was meant to describe.