Jennifer Castle
Monarch Season
Release Date: Oct 16, 2020
Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
Record label: Paradise of Bachelors
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Album Review: Monarch Season by Jennifer Castle
Great, Based on 2 Critics
Based on rating 8/10
Every album that Jennifer Castle makes feels like a guidebook on how to live. On her previous two records released under her own name — 2014's Pink City and 2018's Angels of Death — Castle sings of nature, love, death and their interwoven beauty. On her new record, Monarch Season, Castle returns to these themes, but this time she performs her songs in a minimalist setting.
Based on rating 7.5/10
There is nowhere to hide on Monarch Season. The latest album from Canadian songwriter Jennifer Castle is as open-ended and unfurnished as folk music can get. Each of its songs was recorded at Castle's Ontario home, the windows open to let in sounds from Lake Erie just outside. The lyrics are bound by a focus on the moon, but you would be hard-pressed to find anything resembling a narrative in her writing.
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