The Melt by Jason Diamond

The Melt by Jason Diamond

Welcome to Jimmy Buffett Summer

Embrace the dark underbelly of 1970s soft rock

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Jason Diamond
May 24, 2022
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Late last year, the world blessed us with a new Jenny Lewis song. I’ve always liked Lewis. I’m of a certain age where I have a Rilo Kiley song cemented in my mind with a very specific memory* of being young and sad and searching for any morsel of joy, but I like her solo stuff way more. When she put out The Voyager in 2014, I got very Patrick Bateman an…

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