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Lee Harvey Osmond, stylized as LeE HARVeY OsMOND, is a Canadian psychedelic folk project of musician Tom Wilson.

Produced by Michael Timmins (Cowboy Junkies) in the intimacy of his Toronto Roncesvalle studio, the humanity of the album is like the warmth of blood that rushes to the cut: a sudden alive jolt in the middle of peril and uncertainty; a suspension of possibility that anything can happen next. Redolent with swooning horns and guitars that bob and weave, Lee Harvey Osmond's voice - forever the hallmark of his sound which spans over three decades of work - sounds, here, like a warm hand to the forehead, an arm on the arm of the stricken, a comforting growl at the heart of a screaming world.

Beautiful Scars bends and twists and stretches and squeezes Lee Harvey Osmond's deep baritone - the producer treating it as if caged in a transistor radio, bathed in echo from above, or sunk in the muck of distortion. The strength of the songs notwithstanding, Beautiful Scars is a fascinating vocal journey to rank among the great sonic Canadian records of our time.

Beautiful Scars journeys between the quiet, smouldering, raging, moving, and sad. Lyrically, Lee Harvey Osmond reflects on the mistakes of the singer's past with the resigned perspective of someone coming through the other side. It defines an album, and a songwriter, bereft of any choices other than to keep moving for fear of sinking into the mire of a dark past.

Beautiful Scars is the third solo album from Tom Wilson's Lee Harvey Osmond and follows two albums, A Quiet Evil and The Folk Sinner which were previously longlisted for the Polaris Prize and nominated for a Juno.

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Beautiful Scars
Track List

1. Loser Without Your Love
2. Blue Moon Drive
3. Shake the Hand
4. Oh the Gods
5. Dreams Come and Go
6. Hey Hey Hey
7. How does it Feel
8. Planet Love
9. Black Spruce
10. Bottom of our Love

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