Consumer Guide Album

Joe Fahey: Baker's Cousin [Rough Fish, 2022]
"There's a vaccine on the horizon/There's a sunrise in the east," the opener reports hopefully, but one-note melodies and $12 cocktails impinge as the insomnia that began with "that one election" never fully loosens its hold ("All Quiet on the Midwestern Front," "Nobody's Afraid of Ringo") ★★★