by Philip Moss

To call Sarah Walk’s upcoming LP, Another Me, powerful is an understatement. Across its eleven tracks, the LA based songwriter sets her innermost thoughts to music – unfurling the self investigative feelings brought up in the therapy sessions that took place during the period writing her sophomore collection.

Unravel initially seems an unusual choice for a single – with Another Me featuring far more obvious or immediate choices. But the album’s opening track is its call to arms. ‘Nothing’s hurt me more than men that grew up with no consequences,’ Walk sings, as she challenges institutionalised patriarchy, and affirms her deep-rooted frustrations from the song’s opening line. Co-produced with Leo Abrahams (David Byrne, Brian Eno, Wild Beasts), its arrangement is a spider’s web of ambient pianos, stunning vocals, and musical interludes that give the piece the feeling of a song-suite rather than pop hit. But this is where the decision to tease the album with Unravel starts to make total sense – it not only shows off Walk the lyricist, the musician and arranger – but, most importantly, the deep thinker.

Another Me will be released through One Little Independent on 28th August.

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