Katy Kirby’s ‘Cool Dry Place’

Katy Kirby opened for Waxahatchee during stretches of her triumphant 2022 Saint Cloud tour—the album that soundtracked my early pandemic lockdown (and likely yours). I...

Future Islands’ “City’s Face”

Earlier this fall, I walked away from my dream. After successfully relocating to Toronto not two years earlier, I moved back to the States. See,...

Sarah McLachlan’s ‘Surfacing’

My hopeless romantic streak started young—we’re talking second grade—so by the time I turned 12, I was well-versed in the high drama of longing. I’d...

Letting It All Sink In

The waters cresting against the shoreline of my personality have, for the past four months, been receding. I can’t even describe to you the size...

Pouring One Out for Pitchfork

Late one afternoon in mid-January, news about Pitchfork began trickling across Twitter before turning into a veritable flood. The screenshot initiating that outpouring captured a...

Land of Talk’s “It’s Okay”

Beginning in my early 20s, my experience of love became largely unrequited for a significant stretch of time. It seemed as though either I consistently...

Mahalia and Rosetta and Mavis

What dark times we’re inhabiting. Hope—once “the things with feathers,” per Emily Dickinson—increasingly feels as though it has stretched its glossy black wings and departed...