““Yeah, it’s Halloween / tonight and every night,” is how Elliott Smith described his attempts to cope with the collateral damage of a difficult childhood: a decorated mask that constantly needs readjusting, hiding wounds yet to heal on a carnival of a night that feels like it exists halfway between a fairytale and the seedy underbelly of human nature. As she began working on the follow-up to her a”
“Having traded city life for the Catskills, the New York artist explores a more relaxed sound on the follow-up to 2018’s Old Ghost, finding new purpose in her soft-focus optimism.”