“The singer's second LP channels real trauma into bracing retro rock”
“Elle King’s voice sounds like an early morning after a late night. She sings with an appealing raspy power, throwing around attitude like she’s tossing candy off a parade float as she breezes through songs stocked with hooks. Yet King’s second album is a puzzling affair. For all her brassy confidence and natural ability, Shake the Spirit feels somehow impersonal. The album plays like a kind of mu”
