Album Review: Forever by Lilly Hiatt

Lilly Hiatt is in love; she loves life and wants you to know it. Listening to Forever, her first album in four years, one can’t help but get swept along in her romantic bliss and the music’s hypnotic pulse. Produced and engineered by Hiatt‘s husband, Coley Hinson, who handles guitars, drums, bass, mandolin, keyboards, and backing vocals, Forever was recorded at the Mole Hill in Nashville and mixed by Paul Q.

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On her sixth studio album, Forever, Lilly Hiatt explores themes of isolation, self-identity, and domestic bliss. Based on that description, you might think you know what it sounds like: quiet, intimate, and replete with sparse acoustic finger-picking and tenderly sung, soul-baring lyrics. While Hiatt has always been an exceptionally vulnerable songwriter, what Forever adds to her repertoire is its unrelenting barrage of brawling guitars, punkish attitude, and hopped-up melodicism.

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