Widowspeak let Roses romanticize the grind without losing the ache

Widowspeak’s Roses gets 10 June review attention, and the timing gives the album another chance to bloom beyond the Friday release rush. The duo’s seventh record, out through Captured Tracks, is framed as a romantic, ethereal indie-rock album where love and daydreaming become forms of escape from the grind. That is a very Widowspeak kind of premise. Across their catalogue, they have often made songs that feel like rooms: softly lit, lightly haunted, full of textures you can almost touch. Roses appears to lean into that curatorial instinct while turning the emotional focus toward romance not as easy bliss, but as a fantasy powerful enough to interrupt ordinary life. Dream pop can become wallpaper when it lacks tension. Widowspeak usually avoid that trap by letting beauty carry a little dust, a little sadness and the awareness that every escape eventually has to face morning.

Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/widowspeak-roses/