“It’s only been a year and a half since Austin-based singer-songwriter Molly Burch released her debut album, ‘Please Be Mine’, but on her new record, ‘First Flower’, she sounds like a singer reborn. Where ‘Please Be Mine’ found Burch dealing with the aftermath of a breakup and leaning on the more melancholic end of her talents, for the most part, this is packed with rolling, sunny riffs and playful”
““Why do I care what you think?” Molly Burch asks in the very first verse of “Candy,” the initial offering of First Flower, the follow up to her widely acclaimed debut Please Be Mine. Borne from tumultuous circumstance—self doubt, anxiety and fractured relationships—Burch claims she was plagued by trouble trepidation. “It ain’t easy no more,” she coos on the tellingly titled “Dangerous Place.” “I h”
“On her second album, the Austin singer-songwriter strengthens her voice and broadens her perspective, turning her gaze from romance to a more nuanced view of her own anxieties.”
