Katy J Pearson – Someday, Now

Like most people, musicians rarely get time for a bit of self care, so Katy J Pearson’s downtime spent amongst other things solo traveling after her last album Sound of The Morning took advantage of a rare gap in her schedule.

Those kind of sabbaticals usually result in change and in the case of it’s follow up, the singer decided to re-establish a deeply buried relationship with pop, one historically spoiled by a disastrous tryst with a major label. Someday, Now is a product of these consequences, in hatching a new approach to songwriting and the hiring of producer Nathan Jenkins, aka Bullion (Carly Rae Jepsen, Nilüfer Yanya).

The manifestation of these is a clipped, contemporary batch of tunes which take Pearson further out of the indie-folk orbit of the past. Save Me’s gentle disco for instance carries echoes of Arthur Russell’s strings, whilst Constant deftly reprises Stevie Nicks. As is to be expected wrestling with this new territory throws up the odd glitch, but on Maybe and the closer Sky in particular Someday, Now is an artist very much back in the room.

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