Sarah Mary Chadwick

Songwriter Sarah Mary Chadwick is a songwriter and vocalist with a raw, anguished delivery, and lyrics to match. After leading the post-grunge band Batrider in the 2000s, her first solo outing was 2012's Eating for Two. She broke her habit of spare instrumentation with the full-band work Please Daddy in 2020 but returned to stark arrangements of just piano and vocals on 2021's Me and Ennui Are Friends Baby. Another gut-wrenching set, Messages to God, followed in 2023, this time with accents of electronics, woodwinds, and other instruments, though 2025's Take Me Out to a Bar / What Am I, Gatsby? was another set of haunted, broken piano dirges.