NEW ALBUMS
MADI DIAZ
History Of A Feeling ANTI
8/10
Emotions laid bare amid incandescent instrumentation
The break-up album is a time-tested concept that in its best forms transmutes betrayal, loss and heartache into resilience, clarity and healing. With History Of A Feeling, Nashville-based singer, songwriter and guitarist Madi Diaz deftly carries the torch, fusing stripped-down, bleeding-heart acoustic meditations with bursts of fiery instrumentation, her glossy voice at once tender and insistent, rhythmically narrating her loveworn journey with precise, clever turns of phrase. If you can get through “Man In Me” and “Crying In Public” without tearing up (possibly in public), there may be no hope for you.