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Feb 14, 2025Was anyone asking Lilly Hiatt to make a 1990s alternative album? No, and that's part of why Forever works so well -- here, she's just doing what feels right in the moment, and it sounds every bit as right to the listener.
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Jan 29, 2025Listening to Forever, her first album in four years, one can’t help but get swept along in her romantic bliss and the music’s hypnotic pulse.
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MojoJan 27, 2025Stability and appreciation of life's little victories have rarely sounded more delightful. [Feb 2025, p.84]
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UncutJan 27, 2025Hiatt has rarely rocked harder than on Forever. Yet those moments are also smartly tempered by songs that sometimes flirt with '80s psychedelia ("Ghost Ship") and the kind of country-roots balladry with which she first made her name over a decade ago. [Jan 2025, p.34]
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Jan 27, 2025The 9-song record is certainly Hiatt’s most ambitious body of work to date and one of her best albums yet. The music is strong, confident and personal without being too earnest. And while she expands her sound and influences quite a bit on this one, it is still every bit a Lilly Hiatt album.
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Jan 27, 2025Forever lacks the sonic variety of previous Hiatt albums, on which her rockers share space with country waltzes, power-pop tunes, and gentle ballads. But her voice sounds so natural here shrouded in reverb, muscling its way through a clamor of guitars, that one wonders if this heavier sound isn’t her true calling.
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Feb 4, 2025Hiatt’s candid emotions feel earned; her open-hearted melodies and punchy hooks play out like a series of unguarded moments.