Madeline Kenney Perfect Shapes (COKE BOTTLE GREEN VINYL) reverse weave Triplet Side B 01

Triplet Side B 01

The beats are often listless and skeletal

Looking Backward

Human Performance finds the band at its songwriting peak: almost every song is catchy and tight enough to be a single

Madeline Kenney Perfect Shapes (COKE BOTTLE GREEN VINYL) reverse weave Triplet Side B 01While Madeline Kenney's 2017 debut LP, Night Night at the First Landing, was at its heart a guitar centric rock album, Perfect Shapes, which was recorded and produced by a new collaborator, Wye Oak's Jenn Wasner, leaps headfirst into fresh and adventurous territory. Largely eschewing conventional rock structures, its ten songs are full of surprises big and small from vibrant synth lines to taut bass figures and subtly modulated vocals that instead of