From the first dramatic, guitar-strumming moments of lead-off track “Old Soul,” Thea Gilmore’s Liejacker exerts a strong emotional and musical pull. You can’t tear your ears away, and with good reason. As Gilmore herself says, “Essentially what you hear in Liejacker is the transition from the darkest point of my life to probably the lightest.”
The 28 year-old British singer-songwriter, whose riveting voice at times recalls the elegance of Annie Lennox, has been making intensely personal, socially aware music to considerable acclaim in her...
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