Listening to Carly on a hot afternoon in July

I spent the summer of 1992 in Cambridge, MA, and this album was my soundtrack. It brings everything back—the dreams, the fears, the friendships, the writing work, the weekend trips to the shore with pals, and all the goals and plans for my life once I got home, a few of which I was actually able to achieve over the next 29 years.

I think Have You Seen Me Lately (1990) is my favourite of her albums of that era because it's solidly about a fully adult woman with a complex life, dealing with so many of the issues that come from life, and from complicated adult relationships with complicated adult men. While the romance of it is piercing, as the best of her work always is, it's also tempered. I'm not going review all the themes it encompasses, but it was absolutely the album I needed in the last summer of my 20s. 

Thanks, Carly.