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Alysse Gafkjen

Jason Isbell and his band the 400 Unit have released their new album Reunions, which is a welcome listen in this complicated moment.

The newly released LP, recorded at Nashville's RCA Studio A and produced by Dave Cobb, is stirring and captivating, part escape and part immersion into a sea of emotion, further proving Isbell as one of his generation's most timely, talented voices and songwriters.

"There are a lot of ghosts on this album," says Isbell of the new record. "Sometimes the songs are about the ghosts of people who aren’t around anymore, but they’re also about who I used to be, the ghost of myself. I found myself writing songs that I wanted to write fifteen years ago, but in those days, I hadn’t written enough songs to know how to do it yet. Just now have I been able to pull it off to my own satisfaction. In that sense it’s a reunion with the me I was back then."

Isbell had been planning a massive spring and summer tour in support of the record, but those plans have obviously been postponed because of the ongoing health crisis.

The full record can be heard below.