With its easygoing country shuffle and gently plaintive horns, "Long Limbed Girl", from his new album At My Age, is eloquently plainspoken about reminiscing-- more specifically, about having a good relationship with your own past. Lowe recounts finding an old photograph of an old flame in his desk drawer: "It was a picture of a girl, tall and slender as a willow tree/ And she had her arms 'round me." He sings that second line proudly, happy to recognize his younger self. It's a fairly mundane set-up, and that's partly the point. The memories are hard to shake but not unwelcome, and his fondness is particularly poignant: "What happened after me? Did you find love eventually?/ And was it everything you hoped it would be?" That he'll never know makes the song all the more bittersweet.

- Stephen Deusner, Pitchfork Media