We all stand on the shoulders of those who came before us, even in art, but the challenge is to do something new while also still respecting & loving the old. As illuminati hotties, Sarah Tudzin does bring to mind leading alt-ladies from the nineties and aughts, but also makes her music her own on POWER.
Somewhere between a grief record and a recovery record, POWER has the songs both kiss-off (“Didn’t”) and get-together (“I Would Like, Still Love You”) that launched many a nineties alt-crush, but the electro-rock press of “YSL” is more akin to twenty-first century Metric. There are sweet & catchy pieces such as “Sleeping In”, but it all ends with the crushing sadness of “Everything Changes”.
There are retreads, there are revivals, and then there are those who evoke your past favorites while also being modern & original (for instance, today is a lot more fluid sexually than even those actually-rather-rigid nineties). illuminati hotties bring all that POWER.
