Jackie Lynn
Jacqueline
Release Date: Apr 10, 2020
Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Electronic, Alternative Singer/Songwriter
Record label: Drag City
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Album Review: Jacqueline by Jackie Lynn
Very Good, Based on 3 Critics
Based on rating 7.5/10
On Haley Fohr's second album under the moniker Jackie Lynn, she lays out her rules for travelers. "Travel light, share your finds," she starts out on "Traveler's Code of Conduct," doling out seemingly familiar instructions before the track slowly disintegrates, turning sinister and surreal. A low, electronic thrum engulfs Fohr's voice as she begins firing off more complex, difficult thoughts--"I'm thinking of past lives/I'm thinking of having a kid"--the kind that might occur to you after long hours alone on the road.
Based on rating 7/10
The last time we heard from Jackie Lynn, the vagabond's freewheeling lifestyle may have gotten the best of her. Having climbed the ranks of Chicago's seedy underground via a multimillion-dollar drug operation, 2016's Jackie Lynn left the outlaw with love lost, cash to burn and home in the rear-view mirror. While it might behoove an unconvicted felon like Lynn to get out of plain sight, it's not too long before she finds herself under a different kind of spotlight on Jacqueline.
Based on rating 7/10
A dramatic departure from her soul-searching experimental indie folk project Circuit des Yeux, Haley Fohr concocts a hazy, diamond-studded outlaw fantasy with her fictional alter ego Jackie Lynn. Continuing the story from Lynn's 2016 debut, Jacqueline is the travelogue of the co-conspirator of a multi-million-dollar cocaine business, on the run after making a hasty retreat from Chicago. Accompanied by all three members of Bitchin Bajas (Cooper Crain, Rob Frye, and Dan Quinlivan), Jacqueline shifts from the Krautrock-influenced synth pop of Jackie Lynn to more of a space disco sound, with opener "Casino Queen" sporting a strutting beat and playful sequencer blips.
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