(2019) Madison Cunningham - Who Are You Now [FLAC]

       (2019) Madison Cunningham - Who Are You Now    





Review:

In the two years between debuting her jazzy, nuanced folk-rock songs on the self-released Love, Lose, Remember EP and presenting her full-length Verve debut, Madison Cunningham was invited to tour with the Punch Brothers and Andrew Bird, perform on Chris Thile’s public radio show, and guest on albums by the likes of Bird, Matt Redman, and J.S. Ondara. For the unacquainted, the allure of her textured voice and sophisticated guitar playing is evident on said debut, 2019’s Who Are You Now. Also apparent are songwriting inspirations that range from Joni Mitchell and Jeff Buckley to Fiona Apple. The album reunites Cunningham with EP producer Tyler Chester, who previously collaborated with Sara Watkins, Blake Mills, and Julian Lage, to name a few. She opens the ten-track set with “Pin It Down,” a groove-heavy look at a problematic relationship that features shifting time signatures, modest blues chops, and a sassy, radio-friendly melody. Like the rest of the album, it gets by with an efficient arrangement, in this case a spare rhythm section and intermittent electric guitar. Later, the quieter “Like You Do” makes do with threadbare acoustic guitar and violin. For something completely different, “Something to Believe In” is a theatrical, piano-based ballad (“If you need something to believe in/You can believe in my love”), and “Dry as Sand” opts for a late-night, brushed-snare half-whisper — at least until the appearance of a rumbling, noir-esque guitar solo more than halfway through. Mostly concerned with imperfect relationships, Who Are You Now is confident and intimate in terms of subject matter and expression throughout these variations, all of which put vocal lines front and center. And “Song in My Head” isn’t the only earworm (“There’s a song in my head/Oh, a line that never stops playing/I’m not sure how it ends”). — allmusic





   





Track List:

01 - Pin It Down

02 - Song in My Head

03 - Something to Believe In

04 - Trouble Found Me

05 - Plain Letters

06 - L.A. (Looking Alive)

07 - Dry as Sand

08 - Like You Do

09 - Common Language

10 - Bound





Media Report:

Genre: folk-rock, indie-folk

Country: San Diego, California, USA

Format: FLAC

Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec

Bit rate mode: Variable

Channel(s): 2 channels

Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz

Bit depth: 16 bits

Compression mode: Lossless

Writing library: libFLAC 1.2.1 (UTC 2007-09-17)





Note: If you like the music, support the artist