Black Belt Eagle Scout
At the Party with My Brown Friends
Release Date: Aug 30, 2019
Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
Record label: Saddle Creek Records
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Album Review: At the Party with My Brown Friends by Black Belt Eagle Scout
Very Good, Based on 2 Critics
Based on rating 7.5/10
Some artists are capable of a certain kind of showiness that seizes the light without seeming to do so. Katherine Paul fits this description, achieving more through simple melody and gentle repetition than shock tactics and bombast ever could. It's a trick she pulled off with her debut as Black Belt Eagle Scout, and she does so again with the follow-up, At the Party with My Brown Friends.
Based on rating 7/10
The solo project of Portland-based musician Katherine Paul, Black Belt Eagle Scout earned critical praise for the eerie introspective indie rock on her 2018 debut, Mother of My Children. Raised on the Swinomish Indian Reservation north of Seattle, Paul has publicly gone to bat as a champion of minority causes, proudly identifying herself as a "radical indigenous queer feminist. " An adept singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, hers is a refreshing voice among indie rock's classically white populace, a position she cheekily alludes to on her sophomore set, At the Party with My Brown Friends.
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