"Holly Macve's 2017 debut "Golden Eagle" showcased a rather promising singer-songwriter with a yodelling delivery pitched somewhere between Patsy Cline and LeAnn Rimes. Where that spartan debut saw Macve largely accompanying herself on acoustic guitar and piano, the arrangements on this belated follow-up are much more ambitious - the slow-burning country rock of "Bird", the Phil Spector-style drum stomps of "Daddy's Gone", the lavish strings on "Little Lonely Heart", the two-chord fuzz-rock of "Sweet Marie" - but so is Macve's songwriting, and melodies such as "Be My Friend" and "Who Am I" show that she can go for the Nashville pop jugular".
