Fran - A Private Picture (Black Vinyl) equal parts Alex G’s whimsy

equal parts Alex G’s whimsy and Helvetia’s thunderous dynamics

precise and filled with melodic entanglement

keeps her chasing those smaller Matryoshka dolls

and suddenly

Fran - A Private Picture (Black Vinyl) equal parts Alex G’s whimsyThe trick is to make a confession entertaining. A Private Picture, the debut album by Chicagos Fran, delivers a collection of extremely personal experiences that have been distilled and abstracted to the point that you can see yourself in their imagery, find analogs to your own emotional history in their scenarios when you hear them, its a conversation. Its therapy, if therapy was allowed to turn you on and make you shake what you got. At its core,