This third album by the American alt-pop singer-songwriter Michelle Zauner is full of tasty textures and ethereal melodies, inspired by the likes of Bjork, with songs, as she says “about recalling the optimism of youth and applying it to adulthood. They’re about making difficult choices, fighting ignominious impulses and honouring commitments, confronting the constant struggle we have with ourselves to be better people.” This particularly expresses itself in the single Savage Good Boy with a “five-year plan” with a partner in the face of disaster, with a forward driving rhythm, layered guitar coda and thrumming bassline, the neat, clipped beats, bass and light funk guitar of Slide Tackle with saxophone, the very 80s-influenced Be Sweet, the big surging sound of Sit, and the string-backed strong country hue melody of Kokomo, IN. Nicely balanced, mature, well-crafted pop. Out on Dead Oceans.
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