Powerful, passionate, personal and one of her best yet, this sixth album by the New Jersey singer-songwriter has hugely relevant themes, her songs addressing how we might protect the things most precious to us from destructive forces beyond our control. Her voice soars, sometimes with strong guitar and drums backing, such on the no-regrets number Mistakes, to stripped-back, visceral, nerve endings of Darkish, both equally powerful in different ways. It’s an album that addresses a huge breadth of issues - the crisis and ripple effect of Covid, how the ghosts of our past can appear without warning in our present; feeling helpless over the violence and racism, and even more personal such as Home To Me, a song about her son. Other standouts include the passionately aspirational but melancholy Anything (“Up the whole night thinking about peace and war … It could've been anything /You could've been anything/I didn't feel anything”) to the starker Born, or the slow burn of Used To It. Out on Jagjaguwar or via Bandcamp.
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