Boston Globe: 'Josephine Foster is a self-described 'opera school dropout' whose downbeat folk stylings build without effort or affectation into shrieking, valve-blowing arias. Her new album with the Supposed, "All the Leaves Are Gone," is explosively electric. Foster fronts a full, amped-up, and extremely inventive band, and her voice billows and soars through a 12-song sequence that was originally conceived as a rock opera. A neo-quirk-folk-rock opera? Foster -- although she is louder than any of her contemporaries -- represents the quintessence of the new folkies. Their wellsprings are in the ancient and arcane, but they are breaking new ground. Their music can be recondite, but it admits no limits. There is a word for this, it fits perfectly, and it was coined by Gerard Manley Hopkins in a poem about his favorite composer, Purcell: 'arch-especial.'

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