Americana Highways Review

Andrew Gulden at Americana Highways reviewed Powerlines and says, "Part of the scholarly (and musical) accomplishment of Powerlines is the fact that Pochop produced the bulk of the album on her own, as well as playing the majority of the instruments. This approach achieves a kind of claustrophobic intimacy – the synths and multi-tracked vocals (all her own) on “Chasm” are particularly effective. On the other end of this constraint is the record’s last cut, the comparatively wide-open “Feeling Around in the Dark.” Despite its “fumbling towards ecstasy” subject matter – “Put your hands where I wish they’d been” – the song, with Pochop’s guitar licks and co-producer Alexander Daoust’s drum programming, fairly moves toward one of my favorite lines so far this year – “I learned the weight of the world gets lighter/When I made you smile on Friday night.” In our aggressively mean world, it’s those little moments of magic that resonate"