It's not always easy to take the temperature. Certainly not of times like these. Sometimes they feel rather 'blurred' to me.Canadian songwriter Charlotte Cornfield's sixth album Hurts Like Hell certainly sounds like slightly blurred but clinicaal storytelling. With pained.snd wounded narrators and narratives. Almost wincing in anticipation of the blow that inevitably seems about to be landed.
So not an album perhaps to cheer you up. But not every book we read is read to convince us that the sun will shine every day. The album certainly lives up to its name on occasion. Cornell spims a fine narrative along the lines of E. Annie Proulx or Anne Tyler. It may not be sunny tomorrow but the sun will surely rise. This is a record that focuses on things that matter as good albums should.
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