On Jaime, Brittany Howard is at the top of her experimental capacities.
While not as immediate as her work for Alabama Shakes, Jaime countains Howard's most intimate moments (History repeats, 13th century metal, Goat Head), where take place in a tragic personal background.

The difficulty in Jaime is that not only it's highly connected to her story, Howard' swings in a large palette of genres (soul and blues to experimental/electro), which is pretty unconfortable at times.

However, her ... read more

Kim Gordon makes a very bold album, full of mixxing ideas.

Sometimes it's too much, sometimes her voice is shaky, sometimes it's a mess, sometimes it's funny.

Unpredictible.

On Giants of all Sizes, Riffs are the definition of cool, chilling is the key word.

But, oh boy, what uninspired vocals !
I mean, not every albums need huge or quirky vocalist, it lacks some dimension with a solid work and balance between vocals and instrumentation to pass the level "cool album".

After the beautiful yet sad UFOF, Big Thief delivers Two Hands, also a very sad album. These two albums could have been one album, the two faces of a coin.

While UFOF is about dealing leaving the past at different stage of your life, Two Hands is about loneliness and the process before beginning your present. This review will include some elements of UFOF, so I suggest to check UFOF songwriting lyrics/process.

Adrianne Lenker was and is always very open about her feelings in her songwriting. ... read more