Following her 2023 debut Aperture, the Texas-born, New York artist returns with a lusher, more expanded sound on this second LP, with synth layers added to her guitar, a sense of yearning for her home and missing a partner she left behind during a summer move to write and record in California, delivering some delicious sonic textures and reflections. The opener and title track is a slow, cautious, experimental number of scratchy sounds and bursts of shimmering electronica, before the delicate Gimme Time confesses with a sense of : “I go out west and maybe / I should be calling you more” but “Give me time, give me time, to grow”. From there the album grows into a landscape of vivid, lush soundscape of further longing and reflection on distance: “I've been five thousands miles away / Why does three thousand feel like more?” My Love is another standout, a dynamic piece of bittersweet, fluid indie pop: “Tell me when you’re coming to stay / I'm starting to miss not waking up with your face.” Normal Today presents an intriguing rich mix of chamber pop strings sounds and echoey electronica: “I just can't focus / Even when you're not around”. Doing Now perhaps offers the most refined of sounds - a woozy guitar with gentle beats, and a lilting, relaxed melody with a gentle thrum of bass and a beautiful middle 8. Miracles also has some fabulous flourishes of synths and tight guitar riffs before the experimental, slower bookend of Bergamont. This is broadly in the bedroom pop, DIY indie artist genre, but now aged 23, Jadagu’s sound is developing, rich, and feels more fully formed in a recording full of original, confident, explorative sounds. Out on Sub Pop Records.
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