Jennylee: Right On!

Indeed, on some levels it’s even more tortured than any of the albums she has recorded as the bassist of Warpaint. There’s a chilly haze that sits over Right On!, an uneasy mystery that permeates past the reverb-heavy vocals and all the way down to the piece’s dark heart. ‘Bully’ mixes up icy riffs and a litany of whispered threats, while ‘White Devil’ concludes with a series of incantations seemingly designed to summon the demonic force of its title.

Not to imply that Right On! isn’t exceptionally beautiful as well, albeit in a tragic way. ‘Real Life’,for example,combines Lindberg’s cooed vocals and the gentle suggestion of violence, as though she were a mother singing protection against the monsters underneath her child’s bed. Nonetheless, of them all, it is ‘He Fresh’ that emerges as the true standout of the album. Traumatising and transcendent, it is steeped in melancholy, and there’s an intoxicating power to its spiralling chorus.

Right On! isn’t just a diversion for Lindberg, or a curio that will only appeal to fans of Warpaint. It’s a stunning, spindly work of art in its own right, one that sets upon the listener like a curse.