Published with Sound Stage Magazine on September 25, 2026. Lizzy McAlpine’s fourth studio album, Angel, combines sonic elements of earlier albums with her classic cutting lyricism to make a new high-quality, but not necessarily innovative record. McAlpine is a sentimental lyricist of the sad-girl-pop realm with a comforting sound, well-recognized in the songwriting world. She’s journeyed from the bright guitar-led Give Me A Minute (2020) to the often flat-falling five seconds

Is it a rite of passage, as a music fan, to go through your first heartbreak and immediately dig through all the music you know of to find the greatest heartbreak songs of all time? How devastatingly beautiful it feels to listen to songs you’ve adored since you were young and finally relate to them. Your brain, overcome with emotion, tries to relate every single lyric back to your specific situation, no matter how much you must twist what’s being sung to make it fit. Maybe yo