“Challenging the boundaries of chamber pop, Valery Gore combined her classical influences and experimental tendencies on her stunning third album. While many of the songs are based around Valery’s crystal clear emotive voice and piano, additions like metallic beats and noise create a broad sonic palette. The lyrics are consistently smart and evocative, especially on songs like ‘Character Girls, Quiet Guys’ and 'July’, the latter adding a playful dose of jazz into the mix. Her vocal acrobatics and spare arrangements make closing track ’S.O.’ a sweet ending.” DB

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“Over the course of three albums, the singer’s stories have become increasingly conceptual and nonfigurative, the words strung together with an assemblage that is highly Dadaist. But her lyrics seem to circle around confusions and passions that are marked with an unmistakably feminist bent, some sense of restoration taking place in the matriarchal structures of her young life; in essence, Gore’s album is the woman repaired to de Beauvoir’s Woman Destroyed.” Read the rest of PopMatters’ feature at the link above.