Sweetness - Vinyle Rose

Description

On her gorgeous, folk-inflected debut alt-pop album, When I'm Alone (2022), girlpuppy (Becca Harvey) often felt like she was working in the shadow of her collaborators. Sweetness, her second album, felt like the perfect project to rethink her creative approach and work solely from her own lyrical and melodic ideas. The result of this process is an album darker and more expansive than its predecessor, full of heart-wrenching songs about grappling with guilt and self-doubt. From its powerful soundscapes to its naturally flowing melodies to its emotionally generous lyrics, every element of Sweetness exudes confidence. To find a backdrop for the vocals, Becca Harvey drew on her diverse musical references from a lifetime: Elliott Smith, Lana Del Rey, Yo La Tengo, and many more. With the help of Alex Farrar, Tom Sinclair, and Holden Fincher, girlpuppy found a common ground between shoegaze, dream-pop, and early millennium pop-rock anthems. Sweetness is the impetus that propels her to the forefront of today's most audacious indie-pop singer-songwriters. For fans of Alvvays, Elliott Smith, Slow Pulp, Yo La Tengo, Liz Phair, Indigo De Souza, The Sundays, My Bloody Valentine, The Cranberries.