Tender Buttons (VMP Blue Pink Swirl) The Alchemist bro'd out with a new

bro'd out with a new generation of country songwriters trying to get back to what's real and pondered his next move

With a set of undeniable "it" intangibles — his look

a kind of spiritual musical summit on which Evans' deft keyboard touches and Hall's reliably subtle phrasings seamlessly mesh and wonderfully dance

this album offers a rich

Tender Buttons (VMP Blue Pink Swirl) The Alchemist bro'd out with a newTo start, there's the formal constraint of naming your record after one of Gertrude Stein's least accessible works. But then again, when were Broadcast interested in legibility? Tender Buttons, the band's third and arguably final record, delights in opacity and in the kinds of kindness Stein writes about in her book of poems. "Out of kindness comes redness," she writes, "And out of rudeness comes rapid same question." In other words: prose that, while