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On her fifth solo, singer-songwriter Jenny Lewis comes off as that one super cool aunt, or maybe older cousin — the one who always finds adventure or attracts drama, and whose existence refutes the supposed dullness of middle age. “My 40s are kicking my ass / And handing them to me in a margarita glass / I was infatuated with an older man / and then I dated a psychopath,” she sings with blasé charm on “Puppy and a Truck,” a hilarious anthem for the rootless and independent.
But hidden beneath the tough exterior, there’s tenderness, too. On the R&B-inflected title track, she references an incident that “almost destroyed” her as a teenager. “I’m not a toy, ya’ll / I got heart,” the former child actor sings, her voice containing the slightest hint of sadness..
On the band’s new single, “Snowman,” the trio wastes no time settling back into a groove that is as unsettling as it is hypnotic. Inspired by “the attitude and breeziness of Brazilian experimental music,” the track builds around tensely strummed guitar chords and slow-burning percussion, setting the table for Amadeo’s longing falsetto: “So like no man that you are,” he sings. “It can be a blessing or a curse to be invisible and undetectable,” the band explains.
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