Pitchfork Recommends Sunny War’s New LP

Pitchfork recommends Sunny War‘s new album Anarchist Gospel and writes that the “folk-punk singer-songwriter steps into a more expansive, considered sound, blending various strains of American roots music into a quietly idiosyncratic style.” According to Stephen Thomas Erlewine, “it’s the warmth of War’s delivery that lingers… Always an empathetic vocalist, War sometimes seemed a shade too earnest on her earlier records, hitting each emotion squarely on the nose. Here, she alternates between wry reticence and bruised confession, qualities that are enhanced by [producer Andrija] Tokic’s subtly shifting, textured production. The wider canvas and broadened palette reveal the complex human emotions within War’s music, resulting in a breakup record that’s emotionally resonant and curiously hopeful.”

Read the full review here and get the album into your rotation ASAP.