Broadly speaking, singer/songwriters have flown under the radar in recent years. Their relative heyday in the 90s was punctuated by radio darlings like Alanis Morissette, Melissa Etheridge, Sheryl Crow, and a promising artist named Fiona Apple. But with the New Yorker‘s recent profile of Swedish hit-maker Max Martin—the unlikely writer behind top singles from Britney Spears, Taylor Swift, and The Weeknd—it could be that these under-appreciated artists are experiencing a resurgence. Take note of Lizzie Karr, the gifted artist behind songs like “Asphyxiate” and “Colours.” Echoes of those pared down, clean singles from the 90s reverberate in Karr’s catchy, jazz-inflected new tune, “Bitter Lemon.”
