Opinion: Sarah Mary Chadwick, the record you won’t necessarily realise you need until one day you do.

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?

Please Daddy is very much a body. It’s as much the safety in removed appreciation as it’s bare bones exposed sitting in your imagined Victorian bathtub, watching all drip out of timelessly beautiful brass taps and down into a pool before you.

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