Lydia Loveless - "Toothache"
Photo by Jillian Clark I first discovered Lydia Loveless with 2014's Somewhere Else. Since then I've been somewhat of a superfan, even as she's strayed away from her alt-country roots into a style more akin to pop music. Some songs have worked for me, and others haven't, but even the ones that haven't have been at least interesting. Now, they're back with a new album due in September, a new single, and an evolved sound. "Toothache" dips a little bit more into alt-country, but just slightly. It's still more of a pop song, but pop in the way that an artist like Fleetwood Mac and Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers are pop. Loveless has made a song that references her alt-country roots, her love of pop, and some of the finest late 70's/early 80's pop leaning classic rock around. It's a change in styles that makes perfect sense, and has us desperate to hear more of her new music. It's not a return to her past as much as it is the next ste...