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• A pivotal album for today: bright, free, unyielding, optimistic. Brain Worms is RVG’s fullest and most flawless album to date. Throughout Brain Worms, it’s clear that this band is on top form.

  Album opener “Common Ground” sets the tone for what’s to come; a brilliant, rousing, hard-hitting album with all the beloved RVG hallmarks. Vager’s voice is as unfiltered and commanding as ever as she delivers her clever, not entirely tongue-in-cheek lyrics. Here, however, these lyrics feel much less resigned and wistful and much more defiant and cheerful. “Tambourine” is the only Covid song Vager wrote when she was “trying not to write Covid songs”, and it’s a painfully honest portrait of grief in the midst of isolation.

  “Brain Worms” tells the all-too-familiar story of someone falling dow