(2016) Sarah Mary Chadwick - Roses Always Die [FLAC,Tracks] {100 XY}

(2016) Sarah Mary Chadwick - Roses Always Die

Review:
Melbourne-based artist, Sarah Mary Chadwick, is set to swiftly follow-up her 2015 album, 9 Classic Tracks, with a new collection, entitled Roses Always Die. Pushing harder towards the limits of stark minimalism, on Roses Always Die Chadwick partners her punctuating lyrics with little more than pre-packaged keyboard loops and plodding organ riffs. The bleakness achieved from the voided space is confrontingly powerful, as – much like the monotone linearity of Casiotone of the Painfully Alone – the compositions take a servient role; required rather than sparring as an equal companion.
As such, all intended centre-stage recognition lands on Chadwick’s contemplative vocals. Occasionally drifting into pop-resemblant structures — as with lead single “Cool with It” — for the most part, the poetic value of her colloquial concisions is emphasised by their solitude amongst surrounding scarcity. As with opener, “Makin It Work”, where defeatist reflection is revamped with painful acceptance, and a nonchalance tone: “I’m moving towards a type of finish line”. Despite few breaks from this pattern of brutally blunt one-liners, completely unrestrained emotional collapse and the occasional, unexpected pop-beat injection, the album remains strikingly powerful from end-to-end.
Rating

Tracklist:
01 - Makin It Work.flac
02 - Yunno What.flac
03 - The Fire That Torched My Fear.flac
04 - Four Walls.flac
05 - Cool It.flac
06 - The Man and the Flags.flac
07 - Every Year's the Same.flac
08 - Make a Boundry.flac
09 - Right Now I'm Running.flac
10 - Turn On.flac

Summary:
Country:Australia
Genre:Indie
Media Report:
Source : CD
Format : FLAC
Format/Info : Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : ~638-784 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits