Rachel Love – Without You

Rachel Love - Lyra

More than four decades after she and her Dolly Mixture bandmates sang about a popular classmate, Rachel Love still makes music. In Railcard and on also her second solo album, Lyra (from 2024, but re-released next month by Slumberland), where she is accompanied by her sons as they process the passing of Rachel’s husband Steve. That’s a beautiful story. It is also a beautiful album of quiet, reflective indiepop of which I could have picked any song. Opening Without You, given the subject, seems the most appropriate choice.

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