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  • Summary: The second full-length release for the indie project of Jilian Medford was produced by Gabe Wax.
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  1. Positive: 4 out of 4
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  1. Nov 5, 2018
    80
    This second LP Crush Crusher sees her grab all the promise of her 2016 debut and years at the heart of her hometown’s DIY scene and turn it into something great.
  2. 75
    Clearer in vision and production than debut Shapeshifter, Crush Crusher is especially potent in the trios that start and end the album.
  3. Nov 5, 2018
    70
    The songs on Crush Crusher can evoke great things like early Nineties shoegaze and girly-voice/big-guitar bands like Charli Bliss. But they move at a weird, exciting logic all their own, gliding and taking off and turning back on themselves, eliding easy catharsis even when they feel explosive.
  4. Nov 5, 2018
    65
    Lyrically, the album is about insecurities and the burden of carrying a loved one’s feelings (see “Ugly/Bored” or “Borrowed Body”), but the straightforward way Medford sings about those subjects spotlights an increasing self-assurance that bolsters her words.