Blog: Turntable Kitchen

You Are Free blew my mind the first time I heard it. That was nearly nine years ago, and it still retains that power when I listen to it today. It's startlingly direct in its minimalism. With strongly affecting melodies Chan Marshall finds beauty and greatness in songs whose foundations are often built with little more than her soothingly emotive, soulful vocals supported with either crisp piano, raw acoustic guitar or cutting electric guitar. And in my mind, it is a nearly perfect album. It's strongly thematically focused, finding Marshall struggling with the certain mind-fuck that being a celebrity [...]

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