Tomboy is singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Maia Sharp’s tenth solo album.
The album is a celebration of the true self, personal, and mostly uplifting, rather than mired in the depths of introspection. There’s a rhythmic thread running through the album, with percussion a prominent element on most tracks.
Sharp plays all kinds of guitars, keyboards, and even soprano saxophone, yet this is the first time she’s worked with synths, an OP-1 mini synth that adds new textures to her sound.
As usual, these are well-crafted songs, written from the perspective of a single woman, now four or five years removed from a two-decade marriage, themes of which she explored on her 2021 Mercy Rising and 2023’s…