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Album Of The Week: Hand Habits placeholder

11:30 AM EST on February 26, 2019

Hand Habits

Meg Duffy's first Hand Habits album was recorded alone at home in stolen moments between tours, while they were playing as part of Kevin Morby's backing band. It was a low-key affair -- humble, you might say, which was reflected in its title: Wildly Idle (Humble Before The Void). The album came across like an elongated sigh, written by a restless being longing for stasis. It's an album about decompressing in between stretches of chaos. It's sort of a "guitar record," in that Duffy is a virtuoso player and loves to geek out about gear and experiment with different tones, but Wildly Idle is also wonderfully meandering and interior, a great album to sit back and get lost in.