“Nandi Rose’s fifth record as Half Waif marks another pivotal step in her evolution”
“Half Waif uses Mythopoetics to focus on songwriting and piano balladry to a wonderful degree”
“Created during a residency at Gainesville’s Pulp Arts studio, Nandi Rose’s latest album as Half Waif is complex, daring, and emotionally unsettled.”
“That primal scream on the cover of Mythopoetics is a giveaway that, five albums of intense emotional introspection in, Nandi Rose Plunkett, AKA Half Waif, is still not feeling particularly chilled. This record wears its wounds proudly, from moments of soft reverie and quiet piano like warm rain to soaring dramas of keening loss such as Fortress, swathed in dark R&B, beats building from panicked-mo”
“Mythopoetics, practically understood, is a mechanism of self-understanding. For Nandi Rose’s fifth solo record as Half Waif, outside her contributions to alt-country rockers Pinegrove, this title is extremely fitting. The record, which she revealed she’s tried to make over the last decade, contains recollections of her childhood, explorations in her pre-emptive fear of loss, and anxieties surround”
