The closeness of Natalie Mering's 3rd album conceals it's aspirations to the outside, to the "Earth" of it's title. These are not typical love songs or protest songs of folk before; they are painful, poignant riddles that celebrate the ambiguity of love.
An exhilarating complement to her past work, and one for which Olsen recalibrated her writing/recording approach and methods to enter a new music-making phase.
Webster's sound draws as much from the lap-steel singer-songwriter pop of the 1970s and teardrop country tunes as it does from the audacious personalities of her city's rap and R&B community.
Primitive, post-EVERYTHING outsider-art noise freak-outs from one of the best to do it. Bill Orcutt and Dan Hosker on guitar; Adris Hoyos on drums and shrieks. Violently avant-garde.