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- Summary: The debut full-length solo release for Texas singer-songwriter Jana Horn was originally self-released in 2020.
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- Record Label: No Quarter
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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MojoJan 27, 2022Her songs sound simultaneously safe and familiar, yet strange and unknowable. [Feb 2022, p.89]
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Jan 27, 2022Made for uncertain times, Optimism is funny, clever and elegant, but it’s not a record that seeks approval or constructs a tidy narrative.
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Jan 27, 2022The album feels about five times larger with the inclusion of “Jordan,” its first single. Whereas the rest of the record sounds homey, “Jordan” surveys alien territory.
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Jan 27, 2022Throughout these skeletal observations, Horn turns cryptic when she's about to give out more than she should—stressing ominous implications while using the mundane as a backdrop of her stories à la Raymond Carver, a writer she cites as an influence.