First Listen: Mary Gauthier, 'Trouble & Love' — npr.org

hide captionMary Gauthier's new album, Trouble & Love, comes out June 10. Mary Gauthier's new album, Trouble & Love, comes out June 10. The breakup songs that offer instant gratification, to songwriter and listener alike, are often the ones that either strike while the anger is hot or skip right to the part where a busted old love is replaced by a new one. Those are the fast-paced action scenes of romantic dissolution. Who would want to dwell on the quietly agonizing, drawn-out times between; the times when a person can feel like a broken record of heartache?

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