Armageddon in a Summer Dress by Sunny War

The Feature Album this week on 2SER is Armageddon in a Summer Dress by Sunny War.

The prolific Nashville-born, LA-based “folk-punk” poet explores the past on her eighth studio record of gospel-influenced folk, rock and blues. The follow-up to 2023’s Anarchist Gospel, Sunny War (aka Sydney Ward) wrote much of the album w during a period in which she moved into the house of her late father in Chattanooga (Tennessee). Originally believing it to be haunted, it turned out she had been hallucinating from gas poisoning, and themes of memory loss and the ghosts of former selves pervade the songwriting. It’s an ultimately cathartic one though with some great guest features (Tre Burt, Valerie June and Steve Ignorant).

Armageddon in a Summer Dress is out now on New West Records on vinyl and digital.