Album Review: Margaret Glaspy - Devotion

Following on from 2016’s Emotions And Math, Margaret Glaspy gives us her latest LP Devotion. Glaspy continues to produce competent three to four-minute bops about love that ache with longing and desire. Her innocent and compelling warble, dealing in lyrics about falling in and out of love, dissects relationships with lyrical poetry that slides between storytelling and more personal reflections.

This album shifts from expressing the sweet joy of falling in love with songs like Young Love and You Amaze Me to the quiet heartbreak of separation with the tender Consequences and the frankly belligerent Vicious. All of this hints that Glaspy is yet another hopeless romantic in search of meaningful connections. Glaspy wears her heart on her sleeve and the sincerity of her delivery suggests that she’s singing lyrics borne of nothing but hard-won experience. Widely regarded as a guitarist to be reckoned with, it is interesting that Glaspy has opted for synth-heavy arrangements that provide grinding electro twists and flourishes of lush swirls. A hugely talented singer-songwriter, Glaspy is hopelessly devoted to producing some powerfully beautiful music.