A pivotal record for contemporary times; bright, free, adamant, optimistic. Brain Worms is RVGs fullest, most pristine album yet. All throughout Brain Worms, its apparent that this is a band in very fine form. Album opener Common Ground sets the tone for whats to come; a shiny, thrilling, punch of an album, with all the beloved RVG hallmarks. Vagers voice is unfiltered and commanding as ever when delivering her clever, not-quite-ironic lyrics. Here, though, those lyrics feel so much less resigned to yearning, and so much more defiant and joyous. Tambourine is the only Covid song Vager wrote when trying not to write Covid songs, and its a painfully honest portrait of grieving mid-isolation.