If the Texan singer songwriter’s 2020 debut, “Optimism”, seemed adjacent to acid-folk, this second album provided a clearer angle on her spectral, literary art. “The Window Is The Dream” was no less subtle, but its spare and considered moves emphasised a closer affinity to art-pop than folk tradition: the vocals unforced, uncanny; the guitar lines a precise needlepoint. A candlelit Cate Le Bon, perhaps, or even a Lana Del Rey raised on Smog albums.
“The Window is the Dream” began as a failed poem. I wrote it as I was waking up… the last thing I want in this breath of existence / is not to throw myself into it / as any bird might stop flying / when the window is the dream. I think the original line was “toad breath.” My classmates were nice about it, even the teacher.
The instrumentalists were: Jared Samuel Elioseff (piano, synth, bass, classical guitar), Adam Jones (drums), Jonathan Horne (classical and electric guitar), Sarah La Puerta Gautier (vibraphone, synth), Daniel Francis Doyle (electric guitar), Craig Ross (bass), Nino Soberon (cello) and Victor Pacek (upright bass). Jared Samuel Elioseff arranged the cello on “After All This Time” and programmed the drum machine on “Song For Eve” and “Love In Return.” Jana Horn wrote the songs and played guitar, bass and piano.
No Quarter Records Released on: 1st March 2023
The Fat Angel Sings 