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Released this spring as Seabird’s third album, Trash Mountain is an exquisitely bittersweet alt-country song cycle about love, loss, and friendship.
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Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 3 June 2025
Five years ago, when the world was thrust into the devastation of the pandemic, the composer Michael Hersch embarked on what would become a twenty-nine-piece song cycle.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025
The work takes the form of a song cycle tracing the nightmarish voyage of a psychotic mind trapped in a liminal state between life and death.
—Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025
As a writer and composer, Finn did not shy away from darker themes, including with his song cycle Elegies, which featured songs about friends dying from AIDS as well as a response to the Sept. 11 attacks.
—Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 8 Apr. 2025
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Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 3 June 2025
Five years ago, when the world was thrust into the devastation of the pandemic, the composer Michael Hersch embarked on what would become a twenty-nine-piece song cycle.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025
The work takes the form of a song cycle tracing the nightmarish voyage of a psychotic mind trapped in a liminal state between life and death.
—Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025
As a writer and composer, Finn did not shy away from darker themes, including with his song cycle Elegies, which featured songs about friends dying from AIDS as well as a response to the Sept. 11 attacks.
—Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 8 Apr. 2025
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“Song cycle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/song%20cycle. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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