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Cassie Ramone, the former leader of Vivian Girls and the Babies, released her debut album The Time Has Come way back in 2014, after the first Vivian Girls breakup. A year later, she followed that one with the holiday LP Christmas In Reno. Now, as the Babies gear up for reunion shows in New York and LA, Ramone has self-released Sweetheart, her third solo album. On first listen, Sweetheart is a fuzzy, starry-eyed lo-fi pop record. Cassie Ramone recorded it with her friend Dylan White, and it’s inspired by family road trips that she took when she was a kid. Mac DeMarco appears on the song “The Only Way I Know How.”-Stereogum
As with most of Ramone's work, there's an admirable lack of apparent affectation across the album, which should help make it welcome in all places predisposed to love—or even just like—her back. Reverb-soaked and shambolic, with the occasional tambourine or fluid guitar solo, the songs address dark days ("Song of Love"), troubled romance ("Hangin On"), and enduring affection ("I Send My Love to You"). Despite the low-key recording setup, flourishes here or there break up the potential monotony, as when the nocturnal acoustic gallop of "I Don't Really Wanna Go" goes off into psyched-out lava-lamp burbles. Even when Ramone tends toward the tender-hearted melodies of great '90s indie-pop duo the Softies on "Sensitive Soul", she stays deadpan enough to allay the twee-allergic.Lo-fi bedroom pop prophet Ariel Pink guests on bass for almost every song, but his presence is understated. T**he Time Has Come's press materials cite '60s Greenwich Village enigma Karen Dalton, and though the title has been used many times, one notable instance is English folkie Anne Briggs' breakout 1971 album. The grassroots movement where Ramone's effort would fit best is '90s indie culture, right down to the handwritten look of the cover text and the doodles on the record's inner label.-Pitchfork
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