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Camelot
★★★★
RELEASED in 2020, Jennifer Castle’s glacially paced Monarch Season, recorded alone in her kitchen looking out over Lake Erie, was the perfect soundtrack to the isolating Covid lockdowns.
Four years later and the Canadian singer-songwriter’s new record broadens her sonic palette beyond the restrained contemporary folk she is known for, with several tracks like Lucky #8 getting close — whisper it — to rocking out. With the set supposedly a commentary on middle age, she’s helped out by a cast of talented musicians, including Cass McCombs on various guitars and Owen Pallett writing the string arrangements.
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