Half Waif, aka Nandi Rose, is going solo again. The singer, songwriter, and producer declares her fearlessness from the first three tracks: "Baby don’t worry about me, I don’t worry about you." On "Ordinary Talk," Rose meditates on the weight of ordinary moments, the constellation of tears and chores, self-doubt, and the banalities that are part of being human, accompanied by her most cinematic and thrilling arrangements to date. It's a good introduction to The Caretaker, an album that observes the boundaries between working alone and with others, between isolation and connection. The result is her most daring album. Across eleven songs, Rose creates the lush world of a humid summer night, dreaming and striving to reach a season in which she is her "best self."