Album Review: Charlie Hilton’s River of Valentines Feels Like Sauvie Island at Golden Hour

Album Review: Charlie Hilton’s River of Valentines Feels Like Sauvie Island at Golden Hour

In Peter Weir’s 1975 film Picnic at Hanging Rock, a group of boarding school girls in Victorian-era Australia don white lace, twirl parasols, and craft elaborate valentines before some of them vanish behind a boulder on a searing summer day, never to be seen again. Charlie Hilton, best known as the vocalist for the woozy Portland-grown outfit Blouse, channels that same eerie, sun-drenched mystique on her second full-length LP, River of Valentine…