Video: Tender Forever - My Love (Inrocks Session 12)

Maybe Valera's just settling into some subtle changes, or slowly headed to some grander departure. If so, the seeds for something great are here. But on its own, No Snare doesn't quite hold up. If there's a been a consistent success for Melanie Valera in her work under the Tender Forever moniker, it's her ability to take the cool metal of drum machines and electronic blips and make them simmer with warmth or, at her very best, course with hot blood. So at first listen, the decidedly darker atmosphere of her new album, No Snare, might seem [...]