Eating Scraps With Delight

Margaret Glaspy “Female Brain”

One thing I like a lot about Margaret Glaspy is the way her music is always contrasting delicacy and bluntness in its physicality, which carries over to her lyrics and singing. She conveys warmth and sensuality as often as she’s putting up her defenses and guarding her boundaries, and it’s not presented as a contradiction as much as a reasonable way of living in a harsh world. Glaspy’s new record Echo the Diamond almost completely strips out the R&B aspects of her music and focuses on the more rough and cathartic side of what she does. “Female Brain” stands out as a particularly blunt and edgy song – overtly resentful and confrontational in its lyrics, and so taut and tense that it sometimes feels like it might snap with a little more strain. It’s a terse and scathing little song, not quite violent but definitely irritated to the point where that doesn’t seem out of the question.

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