Royale Lynn is a solo artist and the thing about art, real art, is that only the artist knows what they are aiming for, and what they want. The audience doesn’t know what to expect. Music is art, but it’s not pure art. A musician has to balance their work with retaining fans. Alienate them and your career could end, so each record becomes a kind of reinvention game. Beyonce played it on ‘Cowboy Carter’ in fact, in recent years many big solo artists have been falling over themselves to get into their country rock era. Royale Lynn seems to be doing the opposite. Her breakout early release ‘Workin’ On My Country’ is literally about its distinct country-rock sound so you’d think her debut album would be in the same vein. You’d be wrong.
‘Black Magic’ embraces hard rock and metal, and it’s a good choice, though perhaps not an obvious one. The overall sound is to hard rock what Avril Lavigne is to punk. It’s the kind of pop-rock record you can happily listen to. None of it is bad, but…
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