Episode 133: L.A. Witch, Hayley Thompson-King, Benchmarks, Juni Ati, Chuck Prophet, Caleb JE Brown, HC McEntire, Kathleen Edwards, Rebecca Karpen, Ross Cirri, Bad Flamingo, Jessye de Silva

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Vacation, Bella in the country, work troubles, refrigerators, spicy takes about Bright Eyes, and a whole buttload of music!</span></p> <p><strong>Album of the Week: Hayley Thompson-King -- Sororicide</strong></p> <p><img src= "https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/114693/a0299596923_16.jpg" alt="" width="350" height="350" /></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This album is so cool. Thompson-King is a woman with intense artistic vision: her debut</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Psychotic Melancholia</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">introduced the main themes on</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Sororicide</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">. Thompson-King, a trained opera singer, used her sophomore album to tell the story of a woman (who may or not be the artist herself) whose artistic vision is so all-consuming she’s convinced it’s the voice of the twin she absorbed</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">in utero</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Thompson-King uses this album to explore the musical motifs throughout her life so far: New York punk, opera, and Americana. It’s a bold and adventurous vision and Thompson-King and her band realize it with aplomb.</span></p> <ol> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">L.A. Witch -- “Gen-Z” AND “Motorcycle Boy” (Play With Fire)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Hayley Thompson-King -- “All the Boys Love You” AND “Liederjahr” (Sororicide)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;"> Benchmarks -- “Six One Way” AND “The Good Fight” (Summer, Slowly)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href= "https://www.nodepression.com/album-reviews/juni-ata-makes-stunning-debut-with-saudade-which-almost-never-happened/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Juni Ata -- “Good Enough Ain’t Bad” AND “When it Rains in LA” (Saudade)</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: