Songwriter Sarah Mary Chadwick led the post-grunge band Batrider in the 2000s before switching focus to sparer, more confessional solo material. A vocalist with a raw, anguished delivery, 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.