Dangerous is perhaps not the adjective you expect to come to mind first when starting up a review of a female singer-songwriter named Emily Easterly whose latest album is titled Heart Comma Heart<\/i>. But as precious as that description might sound, this Emily\u2019s soul sisters are Chrissie Hynde, Patti Smith and Meg White, not Hannah Montana.<\/p>\n
Heart Comma Heart<\/i> is a moody, often angry disc that rails about the agonies of one-sided love (\u201cRocks,\u201d \u201cCount\u201d), declares the ferocious certainty of youth (\u201cYouth On My Side\u201d), and invokes the name of a musical icon to make a point about self-destructive tendencies (\u201cNeil Young Knows What I\u2019m Talking About\u201d). Each cut features a tight arrangement, generally twin guitars and drums a la White Stripes, with no bass and occasional keyboards.\u00a0 This approach gives these tracks a kind of raw, garage-y feel that belies the quality of the composition.\u00a0 On first listen, these songs feel visceral and immediate, though upon study they\u2019ve clearly been arranged with care and precision.<\/p>\n
Harder tracks like \u201cShotgun Wedding\u201d and \u201cShy\u201d are positively cathartic, unleashing their pent-up fury directly in the listener\u2019s face. \u201cHolly,\u201d by contrast, goes for a dreamy, smoky vibe and works to a steamy close. The piano-driven title track is a confessional, but about a hundred shades darker than a conventional one. Each of these varied tracks taps into Easterly\u2019s darkest emotions to deliver a bracing, potent cocktail of confidence and pain.<\/p>\n
Like Frank Carrillo<\/a> and Joe Thompson<\/a> before her, Easterly\u2019s secret weapon is co-producer\/multi-instrumentalist Chris Cubeta<\/a> , who helps each of these songs find its natural groove and provides strong supporting textures on acoustic and electric guitars, Rhodes, piano, and background vocals.<\/p>\n Heart Comma Heart<\/i> confronts the listener with a gripping rawness that dares you not to invest yourself in its dark secrets.\u00a0 Good luck with that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":29207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[8145],"rating":[5615],"class_list":["post-40746","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-emily-easterly","rating-rating-b"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52105,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40746\/revisions\/52105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40746"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=40746"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=40746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}