Welcome to the 17th Songs of the Week of 2024. This week Andy Von Pip, Matt the Raven, Mark Moody, Scott Dransfield, and Stephen Humphries helped me decide what should make the list. We seriously considered over 25 songs this week and narrowed it down to a Top 11.
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Though she tends to sing softly, Eve Adams has never been one to mince words. On her first two records, the Oklahoma native sounded like a natural-born torch singer cocooned in a cloud of smoke, her straight-from-the-heart serenades wilfully corrupted by all manner of lo-fi abstraction. Still, the album titlesâ2017âs
Candy Colored Doomâprovided a crystal-clear indication of where her head was at, and when her words did occasionally cut through the textural haze, they were liable to leave scars. âLoving you is driving me mad/Just like murder/Like a good homicide,â she sang on her debutâs âGood Homicide,â before blithely admitting how desire so often leads to disappointment: âWe got married at 23/He left the next year/And I felt nothing.â