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Album Review: Sarah McLeod - Rocky's Diner

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"It's nice to hear McLeod allow some vulnerability to soften her normally heady vocals."

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Having busted out some covers of 1960s girl group standards while touring solo recently, The Superjesus frontwoman Sarah McLeod gives in to her penchant for the old school with her first solo album in 12 years.

The pint-sized electric lady with the big voice has pared things back to give us Rocky's Diner, full of musings and admissions, after a three-month stint in New York. While not every track is a corker - the back end in particular seems to flag - it's nice to hear McLeod allow some vulnerability to soften her normally heady vocals, gently crooning in Rocky's Reprise, dishing out sultry pouts in Bad Valentine, and gunning it in Hurricane.