This Week’s Model — Jobi Riccio, “Buzzkill”

Although I’m well past my twenties — emphasis on well past — songs that effectively capture the discomfort and uncertainty of that last leg of growing up still hit the sweet spot of kinship recognition. I don’t care to hear some dude my age warbling about mortgages and the misery of bringing tradespeople to the house to contend with faulty plumbing, but I’ll happily nod along to someone’s catchy poignancy in a lament about aging out of a life-of-the-party persona in the few short years between early-twenties and mid-twenties.

“Buzzkill,” the new single from Nashville singer-songwriter Jobi Riccio, is my kinda tune. With a wry resignation and command of pop-rock songcraft that evokes early Courtney Barnett, Riccio churns up all the unsatisfied feelings: “I don’t wanna be/ The guy at the party/ Who makes you sorry/ You decided to go,” Riccio sings. Been there, felt that.


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