CAK140 Erin Anne - Tough Love Marumari Abijah Livingston

Abijah Livingston

the group returned to producer Steve Albini and his Electrical Audio studios in Chicago

How many girls in this city are getting T-I-R-E-D

recording engineer Justin Pizzoferrato sparked the studio imagination of Speedy Ortiz — not only leaning into gritty tones but layer-caking dense dynamics that made these songs pop and pulverize

even though the music contained on them didn’t represent what I ever performed live

CAK140 Erin Anne - Tough Love Marumari Abijah LivingstonThe debut album from Erin Anne, Tough Love is an unruly yet elegant collage of all the elements that make up her musical vocabulary: wildly shredded riffs and lo fi acoustic ramblings, punk rock energy and folky austerity, new wave whimsy and high flown pop theatrics. With a narrative voice at turns thoughtful and rebellious, confrontational and shy, the L. A. based singer songwriter presents a body of work that bravely documents the slow and strange