Album Review: Maddy Jane - Not All Bad Or Good

The guitar shredding, storytelling woman from Tassie manages to have us instinctively do The Twist every time we hear her. Finally, Maddy Jane’s debut album Not All Bad Or Good is here, and our hips are ready.

A part of Maddy Jane’s charm comes from her ability to share her brooding honesty alongside a generous serve of cheek. Crazy Jane Talks To The Bishop, for example, is an intimate, gloomy tale of detachment, containing some of her most poignant verses. Yet, in its final seconds, becomes unexpectedly playful. That broken but bad-ass attitude shines throughout the album’s entirety, providing endless spunk and excitement. Femme is a witty, blatant plead for equality, showing a newfound maturity in Jane’s songwriting. The Other Day is your classic cya later song, full of sass and catchy riffs. The album’s closer Always Saying What They All Can’t Say hits differently though. It's a solemn track about the fragility of a broken family and that traditional Maddy Jane attitude completely and appropriately vanishes in this case.

Maddy Jane and band have a way of crafting sounds that are distinctly theirs, creating indie rock magic with an authentic pop sound. It is a magical debut, compiled of intimate but universal stories worthy of repeat and a thousand daggy dance moves.