Rotherham’s Rebecca Taylor returns with a second LP under her liberated moniker after Compliments Please with an even greater triumph of darkly humorous and caustic honesty topped with glorious gospel harmonies, big drums, orchestration and a celebration of emancipated womanhood. Her sense of release is palpable after a decade of frustration as the drummer and singer in indie duo Slow Club, as well as a spell of live shows with anarchic supergroup Moonlandingz, and here she pulls no punches on relationships of all kinds, filled with a fistful of killer lines addressing both herself and others. There are many standouts but most of all the title track, which opens with the line “Listen to my body – We haven't been in touch much lately” and the brutally direct talking number I Do This All The Time, which addresses a terrible relationship as much as self-meditates with “So look up, lean back, be strong, You didn't think you'd live this long” and “You're beautiful and I want the best for you, But I also hope you fail without me, It was really rather miserable trying to love you.” Moody is pointed and blackly catchy, with “Sexting you at the mental health talk seems counterproductive,” and while among many other tracks worth many listens are I’m Fine, Fucking Wizardry, Hobbies 2, the manic How Can I Help You and the wonderfully funky and defiant and upbeat Forever You. Out on Fiction Records.
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