Review: Escape Artist by Danielle Durack released independently


This was a good album to make breakfast to.

Having just come down from the Madi Diaz record, I find myself in the mood for more singer-songwriter stuff. (Wouldn’t it be funny if we ran this one first?) Now, this isn’t to say Danielle Durack produced the same record, just one sort of on the same sonic line. On the emotional line this feels quite the opposite from the pained record we reviewed right before this. (Oh yea, we’re doing this first.) The album opens with “Shirt Song,” a track where Danielle explores the symbolism of holding onto objects left behind by an ex and having them take on new meaning as she makes them her own. This kind of optimism is really refreshing especially with break-up, or long past break-up, narratives.


Sitting in my ex’s shirt, boiling water, making coffee, folding laundry, writing verse.

It all just feels a little too absurd, we fell in love, a couple months, and now you’re nothing but another shirt.


Even in being optimistic there are still cuts like “Good Dog.” Which is about sitting and waiting obediently for someone it’s already over with, sort of a resignation to what they’ve left for you to rebuild. While a good album overall, this is very of itself even with similarities I could make with other albums in the genre. Therefore, I don’t have an overt number of things to say. Danielle Durack is expressive, proficient in all her performances and puts out an all-around pleasant record in Escape Artist.

Our score of Escape Artist is 7/10.
Our favorite track is track one, Shirt Song.

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