Wallice has officially arrived with her debut album, "The Jester." A bobbing mix of self-aware lyricism, wry humor, and deeply evocative melodies, The Jester cements Wallice as a unique voice in modern music, one that welcomes the absurd and the sincere into life's winding road.
Spanning 14 tracks across 45 minutes and 54 seconds, "The Jester" is a carnival of sound, a sonic carousel of feeling that, playfully, cavorts between wistful nostalgia and existential thought. Predictably, Wallice shapes a story that's as mischievous as it is melancholic, each song resonant as the punch line to a joke that's always on the cusp of completion resonant, endlessly replayable, and just a little out of reach.
"The Jester's" introspective yet playfully detached duality "is captured in standout tracks like "Sickness" and "Boring," which showcase an older, more nuanced Wallice while still delivering what she does best: cheeky delivery. You will recognize the same infectious energy that pushed her previous work through the stratosphere.
Whether glibly crooning about loneliness or warbling through the haze of heartbreak, Wallice has bottled young adulthood's messy, surreal experience into a collection of tracks that feel effortlessly cool and achingly poignant. "The Jester" is an experience, a time, a feeling that resonates long after the last note has dissipated.