Black Belt Eagle Scout
Mother of My Children
Release Date: Sep 14, 2018
Genre(s): Pop/Rock
Record label: Saddle Creek Records
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Album Review: Mother of My Children by Black Belt Eagle Scout
Excellent, Based on 2 Critics
Based on rating 4/5
The first song is the best song, the expansive, throttling “Soft Stud,” something to hang from, something to love. “Need you want you/ Need you want you,” Katherine Paul sings. “I know you’re taken,” Katherine Paul sings. So I listen again. Wanting is ….
Based on rating 8/10
It's hard to deny someone's personhood when they're going through the same struggles you are. Katherine Paul, known musically as Black Belt Eagle Scout, is a self-described "queer indigenous radical feminist," but this trait could be easy to miss if not for her artistic moniker and her song titles (such as "Indians Never Die"). Instead, what shines on Mother of My Children, her debut album, is the notion that, although the struggles of marginalized folks are fully real and in deep need of fixing, oppressed people work through the same personal, emotional, and romantic turmoil as all people do.
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