Fortune spent, but that's irrelevant, to build something that's sacred till the end.

Conor Oberst is no stranger to vulnerability. Now his latest album ‘Ruminations’ seems his last best refined attempt at salvation by exposure. Not far from the opening lines of the opening song Tachycardia these words rest, “I’m a stone’s throw from everyone I love and know, but I can’t show up looking like I do.” There is a pressing narrative to this naked language he employs throughout. The album is also instrumentally stripped sometimes urgent, wherein he has exhaled upon full orchestras...