Thanks La Bateau.
I am curious as to how/why she moved to that heavy rock sound on some of the tracks on ‘Blow’ only a year after ‘Glowstars’, which is gorgeous and layered and dreamy but never really heavy per se - what was she inspired by? I’m tempted to imagine Throwing Muses and similar.
On ‘Oyster’ the rock production is pretty smoothed out and only “Island’” (I guess “Sugar” too to some extent) really captures what she could have done with that weight and intensity. The way she murmurs, “he’s too scared to hit me now / he’ll bring flowers instead”, and then later on the insane bridge that hissed “a kiss a kick a kiss a kickkkkkk”.
― Tim F, Sunday, 18 February 2018 21:24 (six years ago) link