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April 26th, 2017 11:55am

God Above And Devil Below


Annie Hardy “Want”

Annie Hardy’s music in Giant Drag was usually quite playful, and at times overtly silly in a bratty, stoner-ish sort of way. Her first solo record has a very different tone, a direct result of her experiencing some truly awful trauma – the death of her infant son, and a year later, the death of that son’s father. She sounds shell-shocked and anguished in this music, and her words are direct and plain spoken. On “Want” she wails “I want my baby back, what else can I do?,” and sometimes sounds like she’s on the verge of tears. The music, which falls somewhere in the space between the most ragged and desolate Neil Young stuff and Beck’s Sea Change aesthetic, feels both intimate and epic. There are moments of catharsis in this song, but it mostly sounds lost and crestfallen. It’s a song begging for answers or release or some kind of sign, but all it can offer in return is raw, undiluted grief.

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