Album Review: Pomegranate by Tess Parks

I kept rolling Jack's description around in my mind as I listened to Pomegranate, feeling its truth in the face of such obviously ethereal beauty, because it's such a compelling juxtaposition, because juxtapositions are something that Pomegranate deals in. It's most evident on the album's second track, deliciously named "California's Dreaming. " That the dream is a lie -- the American Dream, maybe, the fantasy of working hard and reaping our labour's rewards eventually, the pursuit of the future at the cost of the present -- is as apparent as looking up at the sky, she sings in her hallucinatory whisper, before going on to recount a memory: "We found you clapping / Clapping at the rose parade / Left with all the shit that you made.

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Tess Parks‘ new record, ‘Pomegranate’, is a hypnotic fusion of drawling pulses and psychedelic undertones. Lush, experimental, and abundant, Parks' third solo collection arrives as a key moment in the trajectory of her sonic ventures. Where ‘Pomegranate’ embodies the pinnacle of Parks' creative imaginations, she hopes this record will provide the same solace and inspiration to others.

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