Daughter Of Swords: Alex (CD)

Daughter of Swords is the solo project of North Carolina singer-songwriter Alex Sauser-Monnig (they/she), who has also released music with bands Mountain Man and The A’s. Their solo debut, Dawnbreaker, was a hushed folk record released in 2019; in the years since, Sauser-Monnig found a new understanding of self, personally and musically.

Across the last several years, Daughter of Swords’ music has grown thornier, an unpredictable and knotty tangle of technicolor synths, heady guitar, bubbling rhythms, a sheen enveloping songs about raw human intensity writ large – crushes, desire, anger, alienation, the horrors of late-stage capitalism, the cascading paradigm shifts it seems we’re all hurtling toward.

1. Alone Together
   
2. Talk To You
   
3. Hard On
   
4. Morning In Madison
   
5. Money Hits
   
6. All I Want Is You
7. Willow
   
8. Dance
   
9. Strange
   
10. Vacation
    
11. Song
    
12. West of West