The All Music Guide says, cheerily, that Rosie Thomas "wouldn't sound out of place spilling from the ceiling of an extremely popular coffee house chain." Indeed, her fourth album, co-produced and with vocal and instrumental assistance from Sufjan Stevens, is full of the kind of basic strum-alongs and diaristic musings that yield showers of Starbucks praise. Such sleepy, easy folk albums as These Friends of Mine seem to be the incantation of some big retirement: from a job, from zest for life, from love, from creativity and insight, from nesting in any neighborhood coffee shop other than the obvious. - pitchforkmedia

Song List
1. If This City Never Sleeps
2. Why Waste More Time?
3. The One I Love
4. Much Farther to Go
5. Paper Doll
6. Kite Song
7. Songbird
8. All the Way to New York City
9. Say Hello
10. These Friends of Mine

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