Rosalie Cunningham is having fun. It’s in every note, word and musical gesture on her third solo LP, the cinematically-styled To Shoot Another Day.
It hasn’t always been the case – she’s admitted that her 2019 self-titled debut and 2022’s Two-Piece Puzzle are trauma-inducing enough for her to give them the swerve until her courage is plucked up. That’s peculiar, as they’re high-calibre works; but after leaving Purson in 2017 – the psych noir group she’d founded in 2011 – Cunningham was finding her feet, having been mistakenly viewed as just the figurehead for the band and not its driving force.
