praise for familiar drama
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Take Me Back To The City a buffeted-by-winds ballad in the style of Tina Arena, where city and country play as metaphors, punctuates its penitent pace with the sharp snap of an impatient snare, and is laced with a clear bitterness. For all that, the tone of most of the darkest songs is regretful rather than revengeful, such as in the mellow Scandinavian hum of Heartsick. And in the breezy ‘70s of Summertime Waits For You (think Seals and Croft meet Carly Simon),
Bernard Zuel, music journalist https://www.bernardzuel.net/post/jules-familiar-drama-review
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Kerr finds herself indebted to yacht-rock: for the first time in her career, she's recorded a cover in the form of Christopher Cross' 1979 smash Sailing. What started out as a little bit of fun ultimately snowballed into one of the album's standout moments.
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A sprawling ten-track collection documenting the throes and complexities of grief and nostalgia, the stirring record is carried by the sheer force of Jules’ songwriting.
Tom Disalvo, Happy Mag TV https://happymag.tv/jules-album-familiar-drama/
