Sarah Mary Chadwick – Please Daddy
Review by Al Mills, Rough Trade West
"Worn like your favourite heavy-hung overcoat soaked in the second-hand smoke of a familiar stranger, the potency may with wear fade but you’ll never fully be able to remove the addicted liner-notes now staining the threads."
Untimely, Sarah Mary Chadwick has a knack for painted pain to which once explored, there’s slim chance of return. Collected, like the brief soul-shamed aftermath of plucking a flower from its stem with full awareness of its subsequent and impending wilt, you’ve either got to embrace the feeling and repeat your earthy harvest until you have a collection of preserved pressings or, you watch the petals drop and let go.
This is a record that you won’t necessarily realise you need until one day you do. Worn like your favourite heavy-hung overcoat soaked in the second-hand smoke of a familiar stranger, the potency may with wear fade but you’ll never fully be able to remove the addicted liner-notes now staining the threads. Would you even want to?
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