Lera Lynn isn’t vulnerable to repeating herself. Having moved additional away from her countryish beginnings with 2018’s duets album, Performs Effectively With Others, she adopted up with the self-made, and self-explanatory, On My Personal. Now she’s shifted into a completely totally different dimension with One thing Extra Than Love. Co-produced along with her associate Todd Lombardo, it’s an usually shifting, typically troubled, meditation on the thrill and trials of latest parenthood.
Lynn gave beginning to their first son at first of the pandemic. Adjusting to being a mom whereas processing the inner and exterior modifications in her life, she started affected by postnatal melancholy. All of this performed into the songs that took form on the couple’s dwelling in Nashville. As its title suggests, One thing Extra Than Love pulls deep from her emotional self. Each “Phantasm” and “Black River” cope with the euphoria of discovering significant connection, the latter’s acceptance of destiny discovering a metaphor within the ceaseless roll of the present it describes.
Lynn ponders sharing her physique with a brand new presence on “Battle Of Curiosity” (“Can we each exist/Inside this new pores and skin/What’s your identify?”), earlier than declaring her utter devotion on the self-sacrificial title observe, her protecting genes kicking in: “How might I deny you?/Method of stardust/You’re an ideal determine”. The total weight and terror of duty threatens to pull her below on “Eye In The Sky”, however, finally, there’s renewed power on “Golden Solar” and “I’m Your Kamikaze”.
On a musical stage, Lynn imparts these songs with an unhurried grace. And whereas there’s an agreeable twang to “Black River” and folk-country metal on “In A Second”, synths kind the album’s bedrock. “Phantasm” carries echoes of Kacey Musgraves’ transition to propulsive pop (Lombardo is a latest contributor of hers, as are fellow band members Ian Fitchuk and Daniel Tashian), whereas the beautiful “What Is This Physique?” and “Cog In The Machine” current a extra summary and experimental facet of Lynn, topped by her cool, effortlessly agile vocals.
