This sounds very like I'm Awake and Smarter from Life is Sweet.

Track 13 - Weatherspace.

I think we should've'd've d*ne the album in two separate sessions.

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:

Track 12 - Just Want to Know If You're Alright.

This is actually really good. Probably. it's all merged into one for me now. It's is like eating chocolate cake with extra thick chocolate icing with chocolate flavoured cream when you're hungry.

It's just too much.

And there's about 8 minutes to go.

Maybe if they'd stuck the more Musical Theatre ones onto a separate album or something?

Nightjar wrote:

I think we should've'd've d*ne the album in two separate sessions.

We're nearly through it.

This is very like very busy, overwrought JN.

This is a bit magnificent.

Final track - However Worn.

She's dumped the piano and gone back to the acoustic guitar.

last one: However worn out.

I feel that's a wise move.

This sounds more like something from Peddlin' Dreams.

It might work better as a double LP, get 15 minutes then a break.

Turn it over and back in again.

You really can't fault any of this.

It's accomplished, intelligent, ambitious, seasoned and worthy of respect, but it's also perhaps a bit of an onslaught on a tipsy Saturday evening.

I think I feel much more drunk and emotionally overburdened than I actually am.

This is very stripped down.

It sounds like it might not have been recorded in a studio but in a normal room.

This has got a thread on the Steve Hoffman forum

https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/maria-mckee-announces-new-album-la-vita-nuova-due-3-13-2020.895553/page-1

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:

This is very stripped down.

It sounds like it might not have been recorded in a studio but in a normal room.

My hallway?