I don’t normally write new album reviews. There are already too many music critics and bloggers out there doing that. But yesterday, I experienced a disturbance in the force in the form of an extraordinary new album, Bystander by Johanna Samuels, confirming for me that her debut album, Excelsior! (2021) was not a fluke. And because she is not well known…
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