8.6
Avg Score
7
Opinions
#634
All Time
13
Tracks
“Cassandra Jenkins’ last album, 2021’s majestic dream-folk sleeper-hit An Overview on Phenomenal Nature, was supposed to be just that: her last. During its recording, the Manhattan singer–songwriter decided that ten years of releasing music to a largely indifferent public was a perfectly acceptable effort, and so, as the record trickled out during a dark and freezing February lockdown, she prepared”
“Cassandra Jenkins soars on My Light, My Destroyer”
“Following up her 2021 triumph An Overview on Phenomenal Nature, the New York singer-songwriter deepens her exploration of the self and the universe through affecting, comprehensive songs that template a spiritually healthy existence.”
“The New York singer’s smoldering, sophisticated songs get a little more cosmic while retaining their characteristic wit and charm.”
“It’s fair to say that Cassandra Jenkins did not expect to achieve a minor commercial breakthrough with her 2021 album An Overview on Phenomenal Nature. A set of songs mired in grief, some of it occasioned by the suicide of songwriter and Silver Jews frontman David Berman, with whom Jenkins was set to tour as part of his band Purple Mountains, Jenkins apparently wasn’t sure if she wanted to release”
“There is a careful balance between wry insight and open-heartedness in Cassandra Jenkins's songs. As on her very well-received 2021 album, An Overview on Phenomenal Nature, on My Light, My Destroyer, Jenkins casts an editor's eye on her daily observances and interactions, reporting back from Illinois hotel rooms and the farthest regions of the cosmos. It is outer space that supplies a canopy for ”
