Man I really just think this record is so good. She knocked this one out. It’s grown so much for me and I was already pretty big on it when it dropped. So good.
From her newsletter, emphasis mine: I’ve talked about how I tried to love Virgin all the way through, not just when it was a saleable product. I was struck over and over during the process by moments of deep beauty when we were just stumbling onto something or going completely in the wrong direction. Last year we played around with making an album worth of these skeleton versions, cool composites of a few different versions. But on Sunday night, I realised true X-rays of Virgin would be realer, funnier, more revealing of crookedness and slant, less about where we ended up than celebratory of the way of travelling, the repetitions, the acne, the journey. Like Eric said, truly you is beautiful. It’s how I’m trying to live.