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Take Me Out To a Bar / What Am I, Gatsby?
  1. What Am I, Gatsby?
  2. She Never Leant Upon a Bar
  3. Soundtrack
  4. Take Me Out To a Bar
  5. I’m Not Clinging To Life
  6. Not Cool Like NY / Not Cool Like LA
  7. Fade Like Rain
  8. Big Business
  9. The Show Musn’t Go On

Sarah Mary Chadwick

Take Me Out To a Bar / What Am I, Gatsby?

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    Released: 4th Apr 2025

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'Take Me Out To a Bar / What Am I, Gatsby?' marks a deliberate pivot.

The album’s open, introductory chords evoke seem fit to score a scene in a Michael Haneke movie in which some stern German woman stomps down a whitewashed hallway. By the time that Chadwick’s crackly soprano joins in, it figures almost as a kind of intrusion upon what had been, up until that point, a pure mood. “You don’t have to listen to all the lyrics,” she attests. Chadwick's calling card since her earliest releases — a jagged, one-take immediacy — has been dialed back, leaving room to inconspicuously crowbar as much poeticism into the songs as she possibly could.