Hill, Natalie Jane: Hopeful Woman (Vinyl LP) THE FATBACK BAND These songs reveal a band

These songs reveal a band comfortable with subtlety

with care taken to retain the full dynamics of the original recordings

and 8-track studios were all I was able to afford

and That’s My Story favours a raw

Hill, Natalie Jane: Hopeful Woman (Vinyl LP) THE FATBACK BAND These songs reveal a bandNatalie Jane Hills new record, Hopeful Woman, is composed of slender songs, life sized, in which humans endeavor to reconcile themselves to wildernesses and cities; rearrange their rooms and open windows to be closer to the world outside and its choruses of frogs and crickets; attempt and fail to reach one another across a kitchen table; weather natural disaster. If something we might deign to call self discovery emerges over the course of these