Bad Moves

• Wearing Out the Refrain [Don Giovanni, 2024] A-

Consumer Guide Reviews:

Wearing Out the Refrain [Don Giovanni, 2024]
Already around for almost a decade, this very mixed D.C.-based female-male pop-rock g-g-b-d quartet's fourth album is easily their most finished—devoting an entire line to the single six-syllable word "unambiguously" bespeaks discipline, brains, and a sense of humor. Indeed, many of these songs verge on the philosophical, and if you think I'm jiving, how about "Every single thing that you ever did is a lapse in the emptiness"? And "When you do your hallelujah I see through ya" is enough to make a fella prefer it to the Leonard Cohen one. A-