Kitty Empire 

The Voyager review – Jenny Lewis goes into confessional mode

Beneath the sunny production of the third solo album from former Rilo Kiley frontwoman lies an unsunny disposition, writes Kitty Empire
  
  


Years ago, dulcet-voiced Jenny Lewis, frontwoman of LA indie rockers Rilo Kiley, released her debut solo album Rabbit Fur Coat, an undersung indie-country-soul gem. Since then, much has happened, and also, somehow, not enough. Rilo Kiley are no more, Lewis has released more records (as herself, as Jenny and Johnny) and collaborated widely, while remaining less celebrated than a singer, harmoniser and lyricist of her calibre should be; more recently, her estranged father died. This third solo album is her most accessible yet, skewing towards Haim on Head Under Water and confessional retro pop-soul on She's Not Me. The production is a little clean and sunny, but the nature of her distress is not. There's cheating, mushrooms and coke on Slippery Slopes, and, most honest of all, childlessness on the excellent single Just one of the Guys.

 

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