Breedlove’s featured artist for April is ready for her closeup
Leah Capelle is ready for her closeup. The Los Angeles-based songwriter has just released her debut album triptych. Hotly anticipated, it follows on the heels of a series of well received EPs and videos, and is poised to put the Chicago native on the national music map. Capelle—Breedlove’s featured artist for April—has a raging gift for the hook. Each tune’s chorus burrows in immediately and stays there, lingering for days. She shares a vocabulary of despair, as well as an uncommon command of melody, with Aimee Mann; and owns a voice as immediately recognizable, but with a more aggressive tone. triptych explores a harsh breakup but never gets mired. Instead, it surges. It touches on Capelle’s own mental health issues, but is as bright as it is dark. And, particularly with “I keep her,” it serves as a public coming out. Those three themes are the title’s ersatz panels, but taken as a whole, triptych may actually be Capelle’s coming out party as a star. The disc is just brimming with hits, from the auto-tuned electronica of “know me better” and the irresistible thrum of “alder lake” to the full court crunch of “on accident.” While Capelle strums “changed” and picks “did we have a good day, baby?” triptych is not a guitar record per se, but you can always hear the instrument’s role in framing the songs, and Capelle frequently performs her creations unadorned. But the sheen of triptych’s production is direct, thrilling and of the moment. Listen now.
See More
Photo Gallery
