Crisp, stripped back, gentle, intricate and sensitive singer-songwriter folk by the Bristol artist with third album about the last two years of her life, capturing “worry and doubt and letting go”, treading a beautifully bittersweet line between the melancholic and uplifting. There’s shades of Julia Jacklin, Lucy Dacus and even Sufjan Stevens in her clear and gently breathy delivery, with lyrics that tiptoe delicately between sadness and joy, the the most upbeat, emotionally supportive number, Pick, example, opening with “Did I pick a bad time to love you /Did I pick a bad time to arrive / Did I pick a bad time to show you It’s not a bad time to be alive … love is a delicate string / That you lend and carry around”. Other standouts include the wonderfully paced Dawncolored Horse, the slow waltz of In My Own Time, the beautifully bittersweet relationship lead single Lights Light Up, opener Map of Japan, and the subtle, ambiguous closing track, Half Finished. Mature, nuanced, emotionally exquisite. Out on Dead Oceans.
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