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Matt Ward is the epitome of today's singer/songwriter. He possesses an old soul, but uses it to sing about modern conflicts and 21st century problems. Over the course of seven solo releases Ward has only gotten more polished, keeping the warm strum of his acoustic guitar intact while steadily stepping up his production with a roster of dynamic but never overplaying musicians, finely suited to the theme of each album. On Transistor Radio, the golden age of AM was captured with lovely lap steel and other old noises. And on his last release Post War, the themes of chaos and...