The Low Anthem continues to tour the United States behind their recent Nonesuch debut, Oh My God, Charlie Darwin. The trio performs in Philadelphia this weekend before returning to their home state of Rhode Island to play the inimitable Newport Folk Festival, celebrating its 50th year, on August 1.

"There is nothing typical about Rhode Island Americana group The Low Anthem," writes Audiophile Audition's Doug Simpson in his four-star review of the new album. "[T]he ensemble's approach is wider than most, more detailed and consciously cerebral."

Simpson cites the album's "exquisite acoustics" and calls particular attention to its third track, "Ticket Taker," as "the record's finest acoustic moment." He credits, in part, the album's special sound to the wintry Block Island, Rhode Island, environs in which it was recorded. He writes:

The intimacy of the remote site is unmistakable. The unusual on-location strategy gives the dozen tracks a naturalistic feeling, where a listener can experience the music as a form of audio vérité: more direct and honest in many ways than that provided via a high-end professional studio.

Read the complete four-star review at audaud.com.

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"Music Box," another track off the new album, was recently featured on Jazz.com, earning a perfect score of 100. Reviewer Mark Saleski says it comes from his favorite album of the year: "The sonics here are so intimate and glowing that I almost felt compelled to write a short story about a working music box being discovered at bottom of a trunk full of civil war items. Timeless is the proper word." There's more at jazz.com.