Richmond Fontaine: Post To Wire
Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 16 April 2004
RICHMOND FONTAINE frontman Willy Vlautin has a growing reputation as the writer of some of the most depressing songs in America. In his narrated snapshots of life, characters take road trips to nowhere or gaze emptily up at hotel signs as life passes them by. However, his songs are strangely uplifting, no more so than his fourth album's epic centrepiece 'Broken Hearts', in which two of life's downtrodden are bound together by their sheer desperation.
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