other titles...
- What Am I, Gatsby?
- She Never Leant Upon a Bar
- Soundtrack
- Take Me Out To a Bar
- I’m Not Clinging To Life
- Not Cool Like NY / Not Cool Like LA
- Fade Like Rain
- Big Business
- The Show Musn’t Go On
Sarah Mary Chadwick
Take Me Out To a Bar / What Am I, Gatsby?
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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.