I walked away from my first listen of Kendra Amalie’s Intuition with the same dazed and overwhelmed feeling that I had after I first saw St. Vincent perform during her pre-fame days; this is the future of music unfolding in front of my very eyes. Amalie’s solo debut LP takes a fresh stab at elements of American Primitivism and folk rock, as well as psychedelic and ambient music. She then twists each of them apart and mutates them all together into a wholly unique beast. Amalie proves again and again across the record that she and her craft cannot be pigeonholed. Whatever expectations or preco ..read more