Kelly Finnigan - A Lover Was Born (Cyan Blue) 2023-12 Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner knew

Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner knew that she wanted to call it Jubilee

not moshing

and four non-album tracks

If we haven’t learned it already

a record that could feel both touchingly sad and also sardonic

Kelly Finnigan - A Lover Was Born (Cyan Blue) 2023-12 Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner knewLP Cyan Blue vinyl Colemine Records (2024) US Distance as a measure of time and place informs Kelly Finnigans, A Lover Was Born with a grit and grace that turns passion into virtue. The latest solo release from The Monophonics frontman roots itself in the best traditions of midwest soul labels like King, Curtom, Dakar, and the Bodie Recording Company. A Lover Was Born is a testimony that these deep cut grooves are not resigned to nostalgia, instead,