M. Ward's hushed, heavy-hearted meditations are looser and lighter on 2012's A Wasteland Companion. His warming warble dishes out some weathered wisdom over the soft fingerpicking of "Clean Slate" and the piano rocker "Primitive Girl," before She & Him collaborator Zooey Deschanel joins for the Beatles-esque "Me and My Shadow" and the bright retro-rocking Daniel Johnston cover "Sweetheart." Elsewhere, the sparse title track hums with anticipation, building up to the closing folk ditty "Pure Joy," which glows from the simple pleasure of a kiss.
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