Second album by the Australian brings a refreshingly simple, humorously ironic indie-pop with cutting, personal songs about relationships, provocative but honest lines metaphorical themes of the world. This is a less angry album than her anti-male biting first, Beware of the Dogs, and one that in lockdown brought experimentation, moments of introspection, and a lot of moving around. She shares an arresting candour with fellow Australian Julia Jacklin, but her musical style differs, and there’s more of a directness to delivery, and sits somewhere between Lilly Allen and Kirsty McColl. Lungs has a striking, stompy appeal, How Was Your Day? is talky, cheeky upbeat indie, but melancholy recurrent line “Never want to be the one to call it off.” Restricted Account is a reverberant, rather beautiful slower number, as does the piano-based sheen of Underwater. The title track, with a country flavour has bright, upbeat wistful resignation of personal faults (“I’m a drop stitch on your new scarf … I cast you out and pull you in at the same time” and “take you out to see the flood when I try to dry your eyes”) with a theme of the contradictions of relationships that runs throughout this bright, breezy, fresh collection of very likeable songs. Out on Secretly Canadian.
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