With five albums in five years to her name, I wonder if Tamar Berk realises it isn’t the 60s anymore. But I fully appreciate artists with such a work rate, especially if the music is going to be this good. Quality and quantity do not have to be mutually exclusive, it would seem. With music that always comes from a deeply personal place, an outlet for her dreams and worries, hopes and anxieties, OCD, her latest long-player, is her most personal set of songs to date, as much a sonic confessional as it is an album of music.
Ahead of the new album, she gives us “stay close by,” a song that brilliantly captures the beautiful swirl of shimmering dream-state haze and clever and infectious pop sensibility, and the balance of drive and delicacy that acts as the creative crucible for her songs.
Too gossamer-light to be labelled merely shoegaze, too accessible to be called dream pop, “stay close by” is the best of both worlds, somehow both cultish and commercial, dripping simultaneously with underground cool and mainstream potential.
But mainly, like the album that birthed it, it is the sound of an artist ordering their thoughts, making sense of memory and moments, examining life’s patterns and loops, habits and experiences.
And never has someone’s most intimate thoughts made for such a rich and rewarding, not to mention relatable, sound.
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