The Soul of All Natural Things

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The Soul of All Natural Things
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Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 18, 2014 (2014-03-18)
Recorded2012–13
Genre Folk [1]
Label Asthmatic Kitty
Producer Chris Price and Fernando Perdomo
Linda Perhacs chronology
Parallelograms
(1970)
The Soul of All Natural Things
(2014)
I'm a Harmony
(2017)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 73/100 [2]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
The New York Times Positive [4]
NME 8/10 [5]
The Observer Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [6]
Pitchfork 6.8/10.0 [7]

The Soul of All Natural Things is the second studio album by American singer Linda Perhacs, released by Asthmatic Kitty Records in 2014. Produced by Chris Price and Fernando Perdomo, the album was released 44 years after her debut album Parallelograms in 1970.

Contents

Track listing

The Soul of All Natural Things track listing
No.TitleLength
1."The Soul of All Natural Things"5:01
2."Children"3:16
3."River of God"4:23
4."Daybreak"2:32
5."Intensity"5:52
6."Freely"3:33
7."Prisms of Glass"4:20
8."Immunity"3:11
9."When Things Are True Again"4:37
10."Song of the Planets"5:26

Chart positions

Chart (2014)Peak
position
Billboard Americana/Folk Albums [8] 21
Billboard Heatseekers [9] 33

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