In thomassonbomb, 13 Howell has crafted a lost-wax collection of songs about loss, detachment, recovery, and hope. Each of the album’s 13 tracks is a thomasson, a freestanding oddity made of scar tissue, each telling its own story. These songs are funny and dark, gentle and sweet, intensely serious and faintly ridiculous. Thomassons are haunting memories of a former world. ... more