Me and Ennui are friends, baby

"Me and Ennui Are Friends Baby isn't an easy listen, but it's a captivatingly beautiful bummer that ranks with the darkest, drunkest, most flailing moments of Leonard Cohen, Cat Power, and other perpetually sad-hearted songwriters. Chadwick is unafraid to dive to whatever depths of pain and unhidden vulnerability she can fathom on these songs, not necessarily looking for a way through the heavy times as much as striving to portray them as completely as possible".

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"Sarah Mary Chadwick has never been one to gloss over the faultlines in her psyche. Her songs are unsparingly direct and often intimate to the point of being uncomfortable. But even by her own formidable standards, Me And Ennui Are Friends, Baby is wincingly stark ... Me And Ennui... is pure articulation. Just when you think that Sarah Mary Chadwick has shone a light on every one of her warts, here comes the `and all'".

"The unflinching and brutal new record from the Melbourne-based singer-songwriter is so direct that it demands your full attention for every single second ... The song asks something of us far more heartbreaking than Sophie Calle's suffering question in Exquisite Pain. It asks: what did it feel like to be loved? Did it make you feel beautiful?".

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"Newzealandske Sarah Mary Chadwick har lavet et vildt album, der kræver din udelte opmærksomhed ... Det er Chadwick selv og hendes vildt intense nærvær, der gør pladen til noget særligt ... 'Me And Ennui Are Friends, Baby' er en break-up plade ... Chadwick vender vrangen ud på sig selv, og hun ved godt, det ikke er et kønt syn. Det ville med andre ord være en komplet ulideligt nedslående og ubehagelig plade at lytte til, hvis ikke Sarah Mary Chadwick var en både begavet og glimtvis morsom tekstforfatter ... 'Me And Ennui Are Friends, Baby' mister lidt af dampen undervejs. Ikke alle sange er lige stærke. Men det er stadig et album ud over det sædvanlige".

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