This record would be unthinkable if Kennan Gudjonsson, the singer’s life man, hadn’t taken his own life 24 hours after they wished to split up. He had given shape to her songs as a producer, but the two had also settled into a toxic relationship.
After twelve years of silence, Nina Nastasia’s style already perfected on John Peel’s acclaimed debut, Dogs (2000), finds a new reduction: a barely-studio-edited collection of folk vignettes reflective of loss, broken passions, and meditates on the ambivalence of freedom. The emotional directness is sometimes almost unbearable – and yet makes the liberating attitude behind it radically audible.
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