VILLAGERS, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL MY LIFE

There’s a hushed intimacy running through Where Have You Been All My Life?, a reimagining of Villagers’ past work that feels less like a retrospective and more like a new beginning. Stripped down and rearranged, these songs breathe differently, slower, fuller, more haunted. Conor O'Brien’s voice carries more weight in this space, more detail in its shadows. What emerges is not a greatest hits collection, but a quiet reintroduction, as if the songs have lived a life between then and now, and are finally ready to tell you the whole story.