S - Sadstyle

Jenn Ghetto's one-person show S is as much a sincere musical diary as it is a solo project offshoot of her band Carissa's Wierd (yes, it's supposed to be misspelled). Sadstyle was recorded and mixed alone in her bedroom from 1997-1999 on her four-track in a "kind of spur-of-the-moment style," as she explains in the liner notes. Ghetto pours it all out in a chronicle of heartbreak, crushes, and love lost. For Ghetto, like J. Mascis, feelings don't let go -- everything's always messed up and the search for some sort of emotional connection never ends because, as she sings on "See Through Me," "Things have to get better someday." Ghetto has a way with a turn of phrase, and she makes lines like "You rock it out like no one can," from "Up & Down," sound like the closing of a love letter. Read More