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ROSIE TUCKER
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Big-hearted songwriting from folk-punk Californian
Rosie Tucker: disarming
Pairing the straightforward melodies of folk with the wit and resourcefulness of punk rock, Rosie Tucker’s third album is a coming-ofage record about identity, mortality, longing and amphibians. The album opens with a squelchy Pavement guitar riff, a joke about soy-based meat substitutes and a song about their grandmother, and doesn’t let up from there, Tucker sharing witticisms and wisdom with a clear-eyed, speaksung directness that is as disarming as it is moving. Poignant slacker-pop single “Habanero” perfectly captures Tucker’s artistic duality: comparing hot peppers and hot people with a refrain – “Wouldn’t we be perfect together if we wanted exactly the same things” – that will linger in your soul.