setlst_demo

Every guitar sounds like it's being remembered rather than played. The back half loses its nerve slightly, but the first four tracks are the best thing this band has done.

The one where the machinery finally serves the songs instead of hiding them. 15 Step still sounds like the future.

A breakup record that never raises its voice. Vale writes like someone describing a room she's already left.

Ronson's production points at the sixties and the writing is entirely her own.

Impeccably built and hard to love. I admire it more than I return to it.

Not background music. Sit with it.