News about Jake Luppen

“How does anybody know when they’re telling the truth?” Samia sings ten distinct human names on her latest album, Honey, if we don't count Jesus Christ and Kesha. Each of these sonic characters, flesh-and-blood, stands for a flesh-and-blood person, and every "you" outweighs the lyric sheet, vowels plump and rounded by a genuine soul. The inhabitants of Honeybeths, “Muriel” and “David,” “Gigi” and “Meredith,” “Chris” and “Amelia” — the people of Honey — wash infants under kitchen faucets, sweat away mascara while raving to Def Leppard — and then ride along in the backseat to emergency rooms.