Consumer Guide Album

Wednesday: Bleeds [Dead Oceans, 2025]
Karly Hartzman specializes in bleak tales from the scrubby subsistence bohemia of greater Asheville, North Carolina. Stoking bonfires with leaf blowers seems like fun, and why shouldn't your champagne taste like elderberry wine? But weeds ruin the local trampoline, one guy needs a new set of choppers after a local thug mistakes him for the S.O.B. who fucked his wife, and eating grocery-store sushi while you chop up your ketamine with your room key isn't most people's idea of a good time. In the mountains this music may well have its own life. Pastoral as that term is generally understood it isn't. A−