Staff Picks for July 2025
July 1, 2025
The singer/songwriter's second 4AD album is rooted in a type of highly orchestrated folk-rock pitched somewhere between Nick Drake and Sandy Denny on the one hand and southern California soft rock on the other. It has a notably live and largely acoustic sound, free of the label's usual phalanx of effects pedals and keyboards, although the carefully layered arrangements, featuring strings, acoustic guitars, piano, occasional steel guitar accents, and various forms of hand percussion, remain as lush and textured as ever. As a result, it has a timelessness many other albums from this time and place lack.