Good Story

The 24-year-old singer-songwriter has already lived a few lives—farmhand, nanny, door-to-door solar panel salesperson, account manager for an adult content platform, blogger, podcaster, full-time musician. The North Carolina native went viral on TikTok in 2020 for her wry, witty indie-rock breakthrough “Porn Star Tits,” going on to record a pair of EPs before releasing her debut full-length, *Going Through It*, in 2024. On its follow-up, *Good Story*, McLamb interrogates the impulse to narrativize her life, questioning the habit of self-victimization and wondering whether “doing it for the story” is worth the pain. “My stories kept me safe, but now I understand/A story is a lifeboat, and sometimes there is land,” she sings on the introspective “Every Year.” And yet, on the folksy “Talisman,” the compulsion persists: “What is there to do except to write it down?”

On her second album, the North Carolina songwriter tells candid, multi-dimensional stories where everything is on the table—including the act of storytelling.

The authorial voice Eliza McLamb introduced on Going Through It last year comes one step closer to being fully formed but yields mixed results.