Mystic and trenchant, the Los Angeles-based writer and performer’s second album feels emphatically musical even as her style remains rooted in slam poetry.
The guitarist reimagines traditional songs from places the United States has been in conflict with during her lifetime, steeping her stunning interpretations in humility and humanity.
Pianist and percussionist holed up on a gray London day to improvise and record much of this album, which takes a quieter, indoor approach to widescreen new age and ambient jazz.
On an album conceived as a score for a nonexistent coming-of-age film, Swedish musician Gustaf Dicksson communicates teenage longing and uncertainty in breezy, 1970s-indebted soft rock.