Faking My Own Death - Allison Ponthier // EP Review
With her debut EP, Allison Ponthier has brought us further into her world, highlighting her anxieties and insecurities as she rises from the ashes a final time.
released via Interscope, 6 August 2021
“Tornado Country follows me / Everywhere I go, it’s gonna be a part of me”, sings Texas-born Allison Ponthier on the last track of her debut EP, Faking My Own Death. As mundane as the underlying sentiment might seem, the realization that you can’t shake off where you come from was a revelation for the twenty-five-year-old. “It took New York to make me a cowboy”, she admits on opener “Cowboy”. Paradoxically, all it took was for Ponthier to be far from home to piece the shards of herself into one cohesive whole–and to find that small-town life in the South affected her a lot more than she suspected.
Favorites: Cowboy, Harshest Critic, Faking My Own Death
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