This stylishly retro second solo album by the Chicago-born LA-based singer-songwriter follows her acclaimed 2021 LP Mercy, and channels psychedelic soul and alt-60s pop, packed with beautiful, classic-feel, heartbreak songs, and with a title that yearns for that past era and sense of place. Bergman does appear like she’s been transported variously from late-60s Detroit, Memphis and early 70s Laurel Canyon, opener Lonely Road with a lovely swoon-filled soul before the immensely catchy country-flecked pop Gunslinger, about a heartbreaker rogue lover, to the yearning Motown of Dance, the slow, simmering Stop, Please Don’t Go, or the gentle piano number You Can Have Me, or punchy funk-soul of the title track. Aside from the early 70s sun-bleached pop groove about friendship - I’ll Be Your Number One, the second half of the album is largely a gentle, slow pace, particularly the melancholy Didn’t Say Goodbye, and snails-pace mournful Changes. Perhaps the album could do with one or two faster, toe-tappers, but it’s still undoubtedly a classy release, authentically sticking to the era, with final tracks more acoustic Song For Arthur and the sweetly romantic, almost mantra-like California. Nostalgia remains very much musically alive. Out on Third Man Records.
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