Rose Droll - Your Dog (2018)

Rose Droll's debut album, Your Dog, is a record that defies all labels and mystifies people trying to compare it to anything else. It's a captivating listen from the San Francisco-based artist, one that rewards multiple listens and a close reading of the lyric sheet. The self-recorded/produced album was made in a duplex in LA's Highland Park and in a quiet cabin in Big Bear, mastered by Warren Hildebrand (Alex G, Foxes In Fiction). Rose played every instrument on the record, including guitar, piano, drums, bass, cello, and glockenspiel. The songs tell a meticulous and complex story, detailing the joy and despair following the inception and drawn-out end of various romantic connections and her division from Christianity. Though written over a lengthy period of time about many different subjects, the songs all have one major thing in common: the commitment to honesty, often telling these stories exactly as they happened.