BRUCE (album release)

Carrie Fussell’s alt-pop solo project BRUCE is a master class in irreverent high drama. Hissing lead single “Cherry” previewed her debut LP must love teeth with a seductive bite, then follow-up tracks “Perfect Stranger” and “Water Pitcher” made a hard turn for cinematic piano and strings. (Don’t get me started on a cover of Sugar Ray’s “Someday,” which her truly incredible vocals somehow transform into an Angel Olsen-esque ballad.) Set to be documented in full by unnamed “award-winning filmmakers,” the Eventbrite page for this album release show really says it all: “pay no heed to cameras, but please come dressed in your sunday best as tho the lord is watching you. (but like, the lord is john waters.)” – Carys Anderson