Alela Diane's fifth album bids a gracious goodbye to love and youth. It's a snapshot of the Portland singer's spirit 10 years since her debut release and raw from her divorce with husband and collaborator, Tom Bevitori. Following 2011's joyous Alela Diane & Wild Divine, it recalls the melancholy of her earlier albums, running through the full spectrum of breakup emotions: retracing memories on Colorado Blue, propping up the bar during I Thought I Knew and floating in dizzy isolation on Lost Land. With flashes of Sharon Van Etten and Big Star, her lyrics home in on the tiny details – the way he smelt ("the stale smell of cigarettes"), or the flicker of uncertainty in his eyes. But the true beauty here is the absence of vengeance and vitriol: About Farewell is a sincere depiction of the quiet, resolute acceptance of mid- to long-term misery.