For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)

At her best, Zauner can pull the rug out from under a listener. But on a record teeming with big themes – flawed humanity, Greek myth and the brevity of life; one regularly stacked with great lines (“Pissing in the corner of a hotel suite, do you always remember where you are?”, from the excellent Little Girl), all this mellow prettiness doesn’t really do Zauner’s best writing justice.