“Keeping existential dread at bay has been an underlying current for illuminati hotties since day one. When it inevitably does rear its anxiety-inducing head, Sarah Tudzin is quick to swat it away with a quick quip. Feeling like you're failing in life? Well, maybe you never really tried to begin with. Broke and in debt? Time to find that fourth job! But by the time it came to write album four, Tud”
“Sarah Tudzin shows she’s a master at mixing expert popcraft with deep emotional impact”
“Not content with a career as a Grammy-winning engineer and producer (her credits include Boygenius, Slowdive and Weyes Blood), since 2017 Sarah Tudzin has also been releasing her own songs under the Illuminati Hotties alias. Power is her first album in three years, during which time she has processed a series of life-upending events (the death of her mother; new love) while working on other people”
“Although it’s missing the thrillingly raucous, high-energy hooks of her previous records, the warm fourth album by Sarah Tudzin’s indie pop-rock project still packs a punch, albeit a much softer one.”
“On a record of gentler, cozy indie rock, Sarah Tudzin searches for balance while confronting life’s humbling privileges, the heaviness of mourning, and all manner of recent grievances.”
