The Caretaker

In her fourth album under her Half Waif moniker, Nandi Rose envisioned a fictional groundskeeper struggling to maintain the estate to which she’s been entrusted. But *The Caretaker* is less a concept album than it is a clear-eyed stock-taking of the songwriter and former Pinegrove member’s own life at the end of her twenties, recorded from her front porch in New York’s Hudson Valley: “Sitting in the dark, dreaming up a song, crying in my coffee, doing it all wrong,” she sings on “Ordinary Talk.” It’s deceptively straightforward chamber pop with quietly experimental production flairs, with Rose on a journey to the center of the self. As she puts it on “Blinking Light”: “If this doesn’t change me, nothing will.”

Synth-pop auteur Nandi Rose renders nuanced, deeply compelling portrait of a woman turning away from the world just when she needs help the most.

The album often resembles a reversion to Rose's sparser early work and away from the cavernous jolts of her more recent…

Nandi Rose Plunkett finds a space of her own on the mesmerising new Half Waif record, The Caretaker.

On her latest album as Half Waif, Nandi Rose wonders down a triumphant journey within, lingering on supersaturated moments of her past throu...

Nandi Rose gives us a ballsy pop record that often uses restraint and delayed payoff to create a deeper connection with her audience

The Caretaker, Nandi Rose's second album as Half Waif, the follow-up to 2018's equally beautiful and accomplished Lavender, is a deceptive artifact,...