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title: The Brightness
type: Album
date: 2021-12-03
rating: 6
author: Anais Mitchell
genre:
  - Folk
year: 2007
status: Finished
image: the-brightness.jpg
tags:
  - album
colorSortKey: [0, 22, 0]
---
 This is a nice album, and it is fun to listen to Anais suss out some of her work and get a glimpse into her maturation (Hades & Persephone made it all the way to Hadestown!) but the songwriting here is just _weaker_ than _Young Man In America_, a perfect gem of a folk record. This feels sparser, muter, and less interesting, though still nice.