“A heartworn score for an era of total ecological destruction and riotous uprisings.”
This week’s gem of a punny artist name arrives from country stunner Katsy Pline, a Berkeley artist who just released full-length folktronica album No Peace in the Valley. What at first seems like a bedroom version of the flashy Nashville sound soon gets interrupted and shaken off balance by synths and jittery drum machines, suggesting that this is what happens to country music when it gives itself up to the city.