LAURA JEAN Devotion (Chapter) In Northerly, probably my favourite song on this album, Laura Jean Englert says “… into … my room” to a lover and it is exquisitely uncomfortable. The tension and heat, the mix of need and some undercurrent of anger, is palpable. It’s partly in her voice (low and stripped of overt displays, by contrast with the pert backing voice) and partly in the passive-aggressive lyrics which may or may not be a run of failures or resentments disguised as sta

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