The naughty jaw harp bouncing around sets off the humor in the kissing-elbow song, where Lenker is confidently conveying bardic ponderation on similarities between perspectives and boundaries between modalities. More captivating yet heavier lyricism can be found in the opener "Change": she melancholically sings about change and still, death and love, unspokenly negating everything she has questioned. In "Flower of Blood", softly and quiveringly, Lenker’s voice heals ... read more
* (If I Could, Anthems For A Seventeen Year-Old Girl, Photograph)
it’s like pj harvey and sleater kinney had a baby whose name is crosseyed and painless by talking heads