On its ninth album, We Walked In Song (Badman), The Innocence Mission makes like an American version of The Clientele, capturing twilit moments in temperate climes. Though the band has always been into ethereal moods and lower keys, We Walked In Song standouts like "Into Brooklyn, Early In The Morning" have a kind of retro classicism, reminiscent of The Velvet Underground and Joni Mitchell, but marked with the concerns of The Innocence Mission's co-leaders, Don and Karen Peris. These are songs of grief and deep love, rendered with the gentility of a raindrop… A-

 

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