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(Matador Records)
This new gift from Dacus, her third album, was built on an interrogation of her coming-of-age years in Richmond, VA. Many songs start the way a memoir mightāāIn the summer of ā07 I was sure Iād go to heaven, but I was hedging my bets at VBSāāand all of them have the compassion, humour, and honesty of the best autobiographical writing. Most importantly and mysteriously, this album displays Dacusās ability to use the personal as portal into the universal.
āI canāt hide behind generalizations or fiction anymore,ā Dacus says, though talking about these songs, she admits, makes her ache. That Home Video arrives at the end of this locked down, fearful era seems as preordained as the messages within. āI donāt necessarily think that Iām supposed to understand the songs just because I made them,ā Dacus says, āI feel like thereās this person who has been in me my whole life and Iām doing my best to represent them.ā After more than a year of being homebound, in a time when screens and video calls were sometimes our only form of contact, looking backward was a natural habit for many.
If we havenāt learned it already, this album is a gorgeous example of the transformative power of vulnerability. Dacusās voice, both audible and on the page, has a healerās power to soothe and ground and reckon.
TRACKLIST
1. Hot & Heavy
2. Christine
3. First Time
4. VBS
5. Cartwheel
6. Thumbs
7. Going Going Gone
8. Partner In Crime
9. Brando
10. Please Stay
11. Triple Dog Dare
Description
Ā
(Matador Records)
This new gift from Dacus, her third album, was built on an interrogation of her coming-of-age years in Richmond, VA. Many songs start the way a memoir mightāāIn the summer of ā07 I was sure Iād go to heaven, but I was hedging my bets at VBSāāand all of them have the compassion, humour, and honesty of the best autobiographical writing. Most importantly and mysteriously, this album displays Dacusās ability to use the personal as portal into the universal.
āI canāt hide behind generalizations or fiction anymore,ā Dacus says, though talking about these songs, she admits, makes her ache. That Home Video arrives at the end of this locked down, fearful era seems as preordained as the messages within. āI donāt necessarily think that Iām supposed to understand the songs just because I made them,ā Dacus says, āI feel like thereās this person who has been in me my whole life and Iām doing my best to represent them.ā After more than a year of being homebound, in a time when screens and video calls were sometimes our only form of contact, looking backward was a natural habit for many.
If we havenāt learned it already, this album is a gorgeous example of the transformative power of vulnerability. Dacusās voice, both audible and on the page, has a healerās power to soothe and ground and reckon.
TRACKLIST
1. Hot & Heavy
2. Christine
3. First Time
4. VBS
5. Cartwheel
6. Thumbs
7. Going Going Gone
8. Partner In Crime
9. Brando
10. Please Stay
11. Triple Dog Dare
