Cowboy Junkies - Such Ferocious Beauty (2023) [Hi-Res]

The album is vintage Cowboy Junkies and another dimension from the lo-fi Canadian band comprised of, well, family. A tangle of sonic textures, Beauty is a rumination on aging, losing parents, facing mortality and creating space for one's life in the midst of the ruin that comes from merely living. 'Mike has never shied away from the darker, harder and sometimes uglier realities of our human condition', Margo Timmins explains of the band's singular focus, 'nor has he shied from its beauty. Thankfully, with one comes the other'.