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Cassandra Jenkins Makes a Giant Leap Forward With Career-Defining ‘My Light, My Destroyer’: Album Review
Singer-songwriter Cassandra Jenkins has dramatically expanded her sound and songwriting with the masterful ‘My Light, My Destroyer.'
For the uninitiated, Cassandra Jenkins is a New York-based singer-songwriter with a pristine voice, precise enunciation and a tone that at times recalls St. Vincent (although you’d rarely confuse the two). Her star began rising quickly with her 2021 hushed, downcast sophomore album “An Overview on Phenomenal Nature,” which paired personal, finely honed lyrics with subtle acoustic instruments and atmospherics. There’s plenty of ear candy for indie-rock fans, from the aforementioned “Clams Casino” to the single “Petco,” a musing on humanity’s increasing distance from nature as she looks in a pet-store window at “two doves wrapped up in filthy and true love” and the “sideways gaze of a lizard” as the electric guitars build the song’s intensity on each verse (and even slip in a very “OK Computer” solo toward the end).
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