Washington: Batflowers review – a brooding swirl of survival and surrender
Megan Washington’s third album ripples and glistens but is best described as contained, its strongest messages coming in its most exposed moments
• Interview with Megan Washington
No, really, this is her happy face.
That Batflowers arrives, and in the main leaves, with its exuberance trimmed and its perspective lowered to somewhere short of the horizon might suggest the long break since Megan Washington’s last album has been – as the tabloids like to say – troubled.