““Picking up the things you left / I never thought I’d be so upset” are the lines Greg Mendez uses to open his new, self-titled album. It’s a fitting entrance for the Philadelphian, as he spends the next nine songs putting back together the fragments of his own life—attempting to understand the absurdity of his own truth and what hard damage has met him on the road to clarity. “No, it’s not the way”
“The Philly singer-songwriter’s third proper album is written and sung with painstaking care and offers an entry point to his sprawling and satisfying discography.”
