DANCING

While not as striking from the outset as "Battle and Victory", and with nothing as masterful as "Off with Your Axe", NANCY ELIZABETH's last album as of 2025 is certainly her most consistent and accomplished collection overall. Resuming with her more centered take on wyrd folk, this largely DIY release is hypnotic, energetic, and replete with hooks, kind of like CIRCULUS might have been if they paid for a seriously good female singer, or like ENYA if she ever stopped floating about the troposphere for 47 minutes. I'm told JOANNA NEWSOM is a big influence but have not yet tried to verify this.

While it's all worthwhile, and most excellent, with spare but atmospheric arrangements on acoustic guitars and sundry keys, if I had to pick a few must hears, they would be the slightly eastern Euro influenced "Indelible Day", the mesmerizing "Simon Says Dance", the western rebel feel of "Debt", and the epic "Raven City".

While NANCY ELIZABETH has continued to tour and even released a single or two in the interim, this 12 year absence is becoming a major concern, but not surprising in a realm where income is rarely better than very modest. The title gave me pause, and while this isn't especially danceable in the physical realm, it does pull those neurons up off the killing floor for a few.

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