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Morgan Wade has never been one to mince words or play coy, a fact that she underscores repeatedly on her new album The Party Is Over (recovered). The follow-up to 2024's acclaimed Obsessed, Wade continues the intense exploration of her psyche's recesses across 11 songs that she again wrote solo.
As ever, the results are thrilling. As the project's title notes, a handful of the songs date back to before Wade signed her major-label deal and have been 'recovered' here with all-new versions. Wade's longtime collaborator and touring bandmate Clint Wells produced the album, finding the right shades to complement Wade's fearless tales of dangerous attraction, unrequited love, and bad decisions.
Wade does all of this while moving through musical styles with ease. She sounds perfectly at home on guitar-heavy tunes like twang-punk scorcher Candy from Strangers and the stormy grunge number Songs I Won't Remember, but she's equally capable of delivering tenderness and vulnerability, as with the swirling R&B in Parking Garage or acoustic strums of Stay. What's more, she does all of it while sounding like no one else and speaking her mind.
- The Party Is Over
- Let Us Down
- East Coast
- Roses
- Left Me Behind
- Candy from Strangers-
- Parking Garage
- Songs I Won't Remember
- High in Your Apartment
- Stay
- Hardwood Floor