I listened to this album on the Bandcamp website so many times that it told me to quit freeloading.

"activists in love" gets me every time

Imagine a stage with a 1940s- or 50's-era aesthetic, set with only the instrumentalists and backup singers for some major male music star. The star doesn't seem to be on stage, but the musicians start the show anyway, coordinated swaying and all. About eight measures into the music, you notice that the soloist is actually present, hidden among the backup singers, joining in the swaying and drawing no attention to himself; just crooning softly, participating.

Abi's voice is so honest and open. She projects a sincerity that I often feel female singers aren't allowed to show. At the same time, she has truly impressive vocal power and range, making it obvious that her wildness is fully within her artistic control: an adjective like "unpolished" would be totally inappropriate. I truly love this album. It's powerful and openhearted and female and true.

"it is no wonder
why baltimore’s burning
like a song that’s been sung for so long
and we finally get the words"

richly harmonic, socially-conscious atmospheric pop. custom-made for me and you~~

This EP has the lushness of sound that makes me love Racing Glaciers, and "Morning" has the soaring melodic catchiness that "Ahead of You Forever" and "Caught in the Strange" bring to the fore. Bright open hopeful clear deep sounds like their whole oeuvre.

I love browsing everynoise. It organizes bands in genre clouds, with left being more "atmospheric" (vs bouncy/rhythmic to the right) and down being more "organic" (vs electrical/highly-produced toward the top). And down in the lower-left corner was S. Carey, in like 4 different genre clouds, with no other close neighbors. Turns out "organic and atmospheric" is pretty accurate for the most calming artist I've heard yet this year.

It's righteous and hurts a little.

I love all of You Won't's music videos so much that I can't look away from YouTube while I'm listening to the music so the only way to really listen to the music by itself was to buy the album. Totally worth it, little lighter on the nostalgia and anticapitalism than Skeptic Goodbye but a little catchier. "Ya Ya Ya" is the obvious single but not the only fun and great song on the disc! I'm picking the unabashedly simple pop track as my favorite because I'm past calling things "guilty pleasures."