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The show, documented with the live album In the Blue Light, jettisons the skittering, moonlit electronics of the star’s back catalogue, softening stark arrangements formerly designed to hug the vocalist like a wintry chill.
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Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
Your ensemble should embody moonlit elegance and cozy glamour, with pops of pale blue and pearls.
—Meghan Rose, Glamour, 22 Nov. 2025
The 40 minute round-trip rolls up the Red Clay Valley, with unobstructed views of moonlit fields, rocky cuts and creek banks.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 31 Oct. 2025
When the sun rose on the 17th, it was revealed that the colonists—possibly out of a last-minute change of plans, possibly out of moonlit confusion—had built a rough defensive fort on the other hill, Breed’s Hill.
—Caity Weaver, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
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Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
Your ensemble should embody moonlit elegance and cozy glamour, with pops of pale blue and pearls.
—Meghan Rose, Glamour, 22 Nov. 2025
The 40 minute round-trip rolls up the Red Clay Valley, with unobstructed views of moonlit fields, rocky cuts and creek banks.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 31 Oct. 2025
When the sun rose on the 17th, it was revealed that the colonists—possibly out of a last-minute change of plans, possibly out of moonlit confusion—had built a rough defensive fort on the other hill, Breed’s Hill.
—Caity Weaver, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
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“Moonlit.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/moonlit. Accessed 12 Dec. 2025.
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moonlit
adjective
moon·lit
ˈmün-ˌlit 
: lighted by the moon
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