Album of the Day: Haley Bonar's Impossible Dream

They say that God loves a trier, and having released up to 15 records since 2001 you can’t deny that Manitoba-born Haley Bonar is trying.

It takes some time, of course, to get things right, and over the past few years Bonar has really developed as a songwriter.

Based in Minnesota (and for a while in Duluth, home to Low, whose Alan Sparhawk has assisted her progression from ingenue performer to established artist), and buoyed by the widespread critical acclaim for 2014's Last War album, Bonar's Impossible Dream takes things up a notch with a bolder approach.

The result is a taut collection of scuzzy alternative pop/rock that tugs its forelock to the charming oddness of Twin Peaks, the rigours of post- punk, and the resonance of 1960s pop.

[ haleybonar.com ]