Madi Diaz has a talent for brief, yet devastating observations: “Looking at who you are and what I can live with/I can imagine myself as a picture of something different,” she whisper-chokes on “Hope Less,” the situationship-rationalizing opening track to her seventh album. The lyric’s power is heightened by the …
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On her new album Fatal Optimist, Madi Diaz reminds herself that the only person who will never leave her is herself. On Monday, the musician announced her album,Fatal Optimist, out on October 10, which she views as the final installment in a trilogy of heartache albums, following 2021’s History of …
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Madi Diaz has enlisted singer-actress Lennon Stella for the blissful duet “One Less Question.” Written by Diaz, Stella, and Kate York, the serene track is overflowing with melody, as Diaz and Stella trade verses across an acoustic guitar that softly builds. “Are we flesh and bone?/Are we just a dream?” …
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