Ingeniously original, eclectic debut alternative folk-pop debut by the Toronto singer-songwriter and producer, following their QWERTY and QWERTY II EPs, weaving a mix of skilfully played guitar sounds, including country pedal steel and acoustic with electronica into a beautiful vocal landscape of offbeat heartbreak love songs. It’s an album inspired by a post-heartbreak solo trip across Japan in the autumn of 2023, an inspiration place for any creative artist. Former Song of the Day, Shell (Of A Man), is an intricate, catchy standout, a nod to her great Canadian folk influence, Joni Mitchell, but with her own idiosyncratic twists. Thus Is Why (I Don’t Spring 4 Love) brings jittery electronica with country guitars and rich vocal harmonies. Puddle (Of Me) and How Long Can You Keep Up a Lie are oddball, sweet-sounding but lyrically caustic and melancholy. Line Back 22 has a ghostly ethereal air with elements of R&B, 10 Ways (To Lose A Crown) fuses acoustic folk with country and woozy dream-pop, HBW and Exhaust the Topic have trap beats with many other elements, and another highlight, Lie Down.., brings a pleasing mix of gentle clicking beats, thrumming bass line, rock guitar, fluttering synths and layered vocals singing bittersweet lyrics: “She can look like me / She won't feel like me.” Nor indeed would anyone sound like her. Richly different. Out on Dirty Hit Records.
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