With the help of veteran songwriter and producer Jacknife Lee (U2, REM, Taylor Swift, Snow Patrol, The Killers, the big gum, what!), Australian singer-songwriter Alexandra Lahey has concocted a third album that would qualify nostalgic, were it not for the fact that she came into the world at a time when her influences were dominating the landscape of popular music. The excellent Good Time opening could have been the B side of All I Wanna Do (1994), success of Sheryl Crow; the stickiest Congratulation, grunge guitars to match, vaguely evokes Nirvana. And so on in this endearing album oozing with the alt-rock-pop sound of the 1990s, a period also revisited by her colleague Julien Baker, to whom she will be compared. The polished, refined production magnifies the clear timbre and the sometimes sensitive, sometimes rebellious interpretation of the musician, who transforms her own anxieties in her lyrics into stanzas full of humor and optimism, right down to the title of the album.
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