![]() ![]() The record's furthest sonic wandering point arrives in a minute-long brass interlude in "the book on how to change part II." Duffy leaves us with a proverb that doubles as a euphoric moment of clarity: "The book on how to change / Wasn't written in one day / The book on how to change / Never taught me anything. In "yr heart ," Duffy sings of a phone call to a distant lover with an almost Patsy Cline-like lilt: "And you are far but not that far / I can feel you push your fingers / Through the fabric of all my thoughts." Duffy displays an adept ability to see their own duplicity, never resolving to pin blame on someone else: "Oh, but I was just a placeholder / A lesson to be learned / Oh, but now you're just a placeholder / For someone wasting time." The album's title track captures the musings of someone scorned but not dejected. These songs evoke waves of warm, pop-driven nostalgia, with equal doses of melancholy and optimism. Duffy's vocals find new confidence amid gentle guitar strumming and warbling pedal steel, blending into a haze of dreamlike Americana. While their earlier work was entirely self-produced, placeholder was recorded at Justin Vernon's Wisconsin studio. See why we named the former one of The 50 Best Albums of 2021. Duffy’s most recent Hand Habits releases were the 2021 full-length LP Fun House and this year’s Sugar the Bruise EP. placeholder, the album’s opener and title track, is one of those songs. The album was recorded in Los Angeles at a friend’s house, with Lewis Pesacov mixing side A and the duo mixing side B themselves. After several years of touring, Duffy signed to indie label Woodsist and, in 2017, released Wildly Idle (Humble Before the Void), a tender, captivating solo debut.Ī gorgeous progression from Wildly Idle, placeholder captures Duffy's transfixing intimacy in elevated form. Release date: 01 March 2019 9 /10 26 February 2019, 07:00 Written by Alex Wisgard ( Albums ) (Hand Habits) Some songs sound like they’ve been around forever, carved from granite and left to be found after digging through the dirt many years later. (Duffy was raised in Albany and attended college in Schenectady.) With momentum building, they chose to place Hand Habits on hold, leaving the Northeast for Los Angeles to play guitar with songwriter Kevin Morby's live band. ![]() ![]() I don't fictionalize much."Īfter a string of bedroom demos made their way to Bandcamp in the early 2010s, Duffy became a fixture on a burgeoning Hudson Valley DIY scene alongside acts like Florist and Bellows. "The songs on placeholder are about accountability and forgiveness. "A big aspect of my songwriting and the way I move through the world depends on my relationships with people," Duffy writes in a statement about the album. ![]()
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