Twenty albums into her career, Thea Gilmore has finally released a self-titled offering after almost abandoning her identity altogether with last project Afterlight. This album is her journey back to finding herself rather than a career retrospective. It sees Gilmore do what she does best: push ahead with new forms, new sonic experiments and daring new structures.
The songs lean largely into electro-folk with collages of spoken and sung lines on tracks centered around identity. Nice Normal Woman is a drone-y dystopic standout calling out the patriarchy, while Gilmore's haunting falsetto on Unravel Me craves realness in a world of facades.
Written, produced and with
all parts played by Gilmore, it’s a career standout from an artist who still
feels as vital as ever.
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