Brandi Carlile "By The Way, I Forgive You" RESERVE SHELF Featuring standout singles

Featuring standout singles

but that they're just lightening up instead (the cover is

It sounds more direct

For a band who took their name from their beloved surfing hobby

under whose influence the band began to experiment beyond the traditional 'guitar record'

Brandi Carlile "By The Way, I Forgive You" RESERVE SHELF Featuring standout singlesBy The Way, I Forgive You is not an album about forgiveness in the easy sense where someone has hurt you and then suddenly there's a great reconciliation and a remorse filled scene with two people running across the golden wheatfield towards an embrace that somehow undoes a lifetime of pain and damage, as if the past has no meaning. It's about radical acceptance (not to be confused with complacency) and unconditional love.