Album
of the
Week:
Stephanie
Lambring
-- Autonomy
Autonomy, Stephanie
Lambring’s debut solo record, is easily one of the best this year.
Lambring had a publishing deal in Nashville, so you know she has
strengthened that songwriting muscle. But after a few years of
writing catchy songs for other people, she decided to do her own
thing. I’m glad she did. Autonomy
has some of the year’s best
songwriting, but Lambring’s performances really give them life.
This album is an astonishing venting of feminine rage -- not
because Lambring is an angry woman, but because this album is all
about examining the at times deadly pressures cis women
face. Autonomy
is an album about the
expectations of patriarchy and learning how to flaunt them -- and
still survive.
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Rachel Brooke -- “Ghost of You” (The Loneliness in
Me)
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Robert Connely Farr -- “Bad Whiskey” (County
Supper)
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Nikki
O’Neill -- “A Man For All Seasons” (World Is Waiting)
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Matt
Burke -- “Missed My Chance” (Single)
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White
Rose Motor Oil -- “Will Not Fade Away” (You Can’t Kill
Ghosts)
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Stephanie
Lambring
-- “Pretty”
(Autonomy)
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Stephie James -- “Where the Sage Grows” (These
Days)
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Monique DeBose -- “Rally Call” (Single)
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Black
TarPoon -- “Sarita” (The Thad EP)
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Ruby
Mack -- "Milktooth" (Devil Told Me)
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Clayton Ryan -- “Fight the Tide” (Single)
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Mariel Buckley and Bros. Landreth -- “Goodbye”
(Something New, Something Blue)
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Tre
Burt -- “Under the Devil’s Knee” (Single)
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Micah
Schnabel -- “Existential Dread Machine” (Single)