On 'Big Picture,' New York-via-Bristol singer/songwriter Fenne Lily (fennelily) unpacks a tumultuous 2020 with heart and sobriety. Read bigugly's review here:
It isn’t easy to traffic in subtleties. Where many of today’s best indie-adjacent projects thrive in minimalism—in the style of Florist—or in hooky maximalism—a la Phoebe Bridgers—Fenne Lily seeks a Goldilocks-esque, happy medium, balancing delicate instrumental layers with pensive vocal delivery. On, she handles her emotions with caution, as if she writes while wearing oven mitts, and her restraint makes her sharpest lines pierce even deeper.
Lily’s decision to frame her sometimes-ambivalent, sometimes-crushing feelings with bright instrumental arrangements is less an exercise in curious juxtaposition for juxtaposition’s sake and more an attempt to make the composite forms her feelings take crystal clear. On “Lights Light Up,”’s lead single, it’s a tickling guitar riff that unfolds into brightness atop gentle, adult-contemporary drums apt for a backyard barbecue playlist.
’s emotional and artistic triumphs. “Dawncolored Horse” exhibits the same gossamer. The lilting vocal delivery with enchanting guitars further invites listeners into Lily’s technicolor bubble, one where freedom from tension or expectations in a close relationship gives way to simpler realities. Other tracks enter gently and grow into something bolder. “Superglued” has the soft minimalism of a Julia Jacklin number, foregrounding Lily’s mellow delivery. As she meditates over the word “superglued,” the guitars erupt into calamitous noise with a peculiar, entropy-laden rhythm, which contrasts with the meticulousness that Lily usually deploys.
While not every song has the guts of “Map of Japan,” the luminescence of “Lights Light Up” or the dynamism of “Half Finished,”is a successful meditation on tension, an act of sitting in the discomfort. Fenne Lily has become a veritable expert on the subject, and her approach to narrating that process is engaging and novel. One can only hope that these contradicting feelings meet resolution sometime soon, but, for now, the music is thoroughly appealing.
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