Album Review: Fatal Optimist by Madi Diaz

Songwriter Madi Diaz’s third record and final entry in what may be considered her heartache trilogy is a piece she considers her rawest yet. Fatal Optimist comes in the wake of a serious relationship ending. Diaz purposefully spent more time alone, sitting with the heartbreak, allowing for a more stripped-back approach and confessional tone to emerge in her music.

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For many reasons, it may seem something of a stretch to compare Madi Diaz with Bruce Springsteen, but the timing of the release of ‘Fatal Optimist’ coincidentally comes at a point when the story of Springsteen’s 1982 album, Nebraska, is being revived on film (‘Deliver Me From Nowhere’) and inevitably in the form of a just in time for (Gran)Dad’s Christmas box set. But the parallels between the two albums are greater than just the obvious stripped-back nature of the music. Like Springsteen in the early 1980s, Diaz is a thirty-something songwriter, well into her career, also coming off the back of her greatest successes to date.

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