Consumer Guide Album

CMAT: Euro-Country [AWAL, 2025]
Her third album phenomenally musical and phenomenally odd, and not for the first time, this very Irish, even more female singer-songwriter once again bounces from man to guy or guy to man as if she can't get enough and enough is too much too soon. Eschewing the usual guitaristics, the arrangements are original enough and the tunes addictive enough to serve such themes as squandered kisses, expensive jeans, dating a guy with kids, dating a guy so you can write a song about him, a boyfriend on the make who messages you as a diversion, waxing your legs when you're only nine, and unreliable boyfriends being more fun than daytime television although admittedly that's a low bar. But as I assume is clear after all that, enduring love is not on the agenda and may never be. A−