Katie Sawicki reviewed
Katie Sawicki
Time Spent Lost
(Bent)
An unexplored, possibly taboo subject in singer-songwriter land is bland, sit-com names (Ryan Adams, Josh Ritter, Amy Ray) to go with the coffeehouse music. In Chicago especially, we’d appreciate a local-sounding call-sign like Katie Sawicki.
Appearing: Wednesday, May 28th at EP Theatre (1820 N. Halsted) in Chicago.
Unfortunately, Sawicki isn’t truly Midwestern. Her gentle, slightly throaty tone depicts endless sky and pavement that stops at the horizon. Lucky for her Time Spent Lost‘s pensivity doesn’t dull itself right to bed, surging with electric guitar on “Good Thing” and picking herself apart (as well as those around her) with saucy barbs like “I’m gonna write like you would/If you knew how to.” She’s not totally impervious to the soothing lull of her own strumming, leaving undue burden on her lyrical acumen. Credit that to the carpal-tunnel one develops from repeatedly writing a beautiful moniker like Sawicki.
— Steve Forstneger
