Pitchfork's Best New Music: Brittany Howard's 'Jaime' - "soul-baring opus that first requires soul-searching"

"The album is named after Howard’s sister, who died at 13 after being diagnosed with a rare form of eye cancer. It was Jaime who first taught Brittany to write a song, and now she’s writing her most unyielding and vulnerable ones, songs about coming to terms with personal identity, guarded secrets, spiritual and social and sexual awakenings, deep-rooted family traumas" - Pitchfork writes in a beautiful review of Britanny Howard's solo debut. In comparison to her band Alabama Shakes, 'Jaime' is "a daring turn in just about every way imaginable: bolder, freakier, riskier, more experimental, not just deeply personal but cuttingly political, sometimes quietly tender, sometimes brutally direct". Listen to the album at BandCamp, and opening song below.

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