BILLIE MARTEN
Drop Cherries(Fiction)
Drop Cherries, the much-anticipated follow-up to 2021’s critically acclaimed Flora Fauna is here, and it represents another step in the fascinating musical journey of Billie Marten. The album marks a step toward personal satisfaction for Marten, sacrificing any notion of delivering what she feels others want to hear and instead aiming for what she calls “genuine, intuitive feeling.”
Lead single I Can’t Get My Head Around You screams of an artist hitting their creative stride: a simple message delivered with incredible aplomb, and performed with purity and originality. This is the real Billie Marten, and it’s wonderful to hear throughout the entire album.
The themes of love and relationships that run through Drop Cherries are not uncharted areas for Marten, but she has never relayed them with such honesty. Billie Marten is a songwriter so assured, yet still so vulnerable, and this might be her finest work yet.
words ELLIOT OAKLEY
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