## Me and Ennui are Friends, Baby - Artist(s): [[Sarah Mary Chadwick]] - Release Year: [[2021]] - Ostensible or actual genres: [[alternative]], [[indie]], [[indie folk]], [[neo-folk]], [[singer-songwriter]] - <iframe style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2153443284/size=small/bgcol=333333/linkcol=0f91ff/transparent=true/" seamless><a href="https://badabingrecords.bandcamp.com/album/me-and-ennui-are-friends-baby">Me And Ennui Are Friends, Baby by Sarah Mary Chadwick</a></iframe> Notes: Bitingly funny in bits. Not a fun listen per se. But super interesting. I like [[The Queen Who Stole the Sky]] better because it's got an organ of course. #album #🤷 #newbrain %% ## Tracks: | No. | Title | Featuring | Notes | | --- | ----- | --------- | ----- | | | | | | %% ## Bandcamp Copy > Me And Ennui Are Friends, Baby is the latest full-length from New Zealand-born, Melbourne-based singer-songwriter, Sarah Mary Chadwick, whose brutally honest songwriting has cast her contrary to the gentleness of most current music. Comprised entirely of minimal solo piano arrangements, the album is despondently clear-eyed and smirkingly self-deprecating, completing a trilogy of records that started with The Queen Who Stole The Sky recorded on Melbourne Town Hall’s grand organ, and her only outing to date featuring a full band, Please Daddy. Each record has followed Chadwick’s internal processing after a traumatic event, with Chadwick’s zeal for psychoanalysis front and center. On Ennui, Chadwick presents an exacting intensity with her choice to pare back to piano and vocals. It's in this stark setting that she focuses on the attempt she made on her life in 2019. > > The methods Chadwick employed on Ennui contrast those of her previous full-band record, which thrust her into a very different world of rehearsal, planning, restraint and control as a functional tool. The result, 2020’s critically acclaimed Please Daddy, was her most aching and engaging achievement to date: “a raw, often unnerving experience,” which “delivers compelling and uplifting catharsis” (Mojo). Recording Ennui shortly after the Please Daddy sessions, Chadwick... more