Word: coffeeshops
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Dates: during 2004-2004
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Nearly everyone is asleep, and TV programming has mostly given way to phone sex commercials. We stay awake on microwaved pastries that have been donated by places like Hi-Rise Bakery and Peet’s Coffeeshop...
...takes Difranco’s trenchant, self-revelatory style and folds it over onto itself, producing music so intimate it would be uncomfortable, were it not for Difranco’s wry delivery. Spoken word poetry is woven into the album, giving it the feel of an open-mic coffeeshop after everyone else has gone home. Politics is unsurprisingly omnipresent, ranging from the subtle (“Behold breathlessly the sight, how a raging river of tears cut a grand canyon of light”) to the not-so subtle (“Why can’t all decent...