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Rosie Tucker: Utopia Now! [Sentimental, 2024]
At 26, Tucker has the lineaments of a mature young adult with a conscience that remains close at hand. Even the love songs, which pop up often if you keep your ears clean, come with the proviso "I'm writing in America, a country whose idea of freedom depends on the subjugation of the many." Following one called "All My Exes Live in Vortexes" with one called "Gil Scott Albatross" (cf. Gil Scott-Heron of The Revolution Will Not Be Televised fame), always ready for "a staring contest with the evil eye," Tucker tells us that "when there's pain you still got nerve," that "eternal life is the intersection of the line of time and the plane of now," that even "doing your best you regress to the mean," and that "For my enemies I want nothing but unending bliss." Some kind of universalist for sure, they have the right to plural pronouns if anymany does. A-