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Review: Despite the fact that Hindsight Is 50/50 is the third album from Ghost Woman in 18 months, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Evan Uschenko believes that this is the first album that “finally captures the true nature of the band”. Recorded mostly live in three days at Kerwax studios in Brittany, France, there is a confidence and assurance that feels built upon the 2022 eponymous debut and the follow-up Anne, If; overall, it carries a darker, denser feel compared to previous releases, though the sound is more akin to what the project was intended to sound like when it started in 2016. Its immersion is immediate, locking us in with the incessant riffing of ‘Bonehead’; sonically the album holds water in a warm, analogue soundworld, but with few digestible vocal melodies steering the tracks or easily giving up their meaning. Vocals come drenched in reverb and meaning is often suggested rather than explicit. The guitars are heavier and the vocals are less easily discernible, but Uschenko believes that “vocals are not important. We prefer to not be understood."