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• Passage du Desir is a studio album by American singer-songwriter Sturgill Simpson, released under a new alter ego Johnny Blue Skies. Passage Du Desir (which translates to “Passage of Desire”) marks Simpson’s first album in three years. After a trio of bluegrass records and his underrated scuzz-rock opus Sound and Fury, Simpson has returned to, and expanded upon, the metamodern country sounds that made him an outsider Nashville star in the early 2010s.

  Lyrically, Passage Du Desir is heavy with heartache, burdened by past mistakes, adrift in impossible dreams, and desperate for relief or at least some kind of escape, writes Rolling Stone, in a review. Simpson’s candor hits unvarnished extremes here, even begging at one point, on “Right Kind o