For all its insidious ferocity, the COVID ordeal also spawned a new musical genre: pandemic records. Stuck indoors like everyone else, some musicians found ways to express their creativity at home, often exploring new repertoire. While some of the resulting albums were myopic and indulgent, others—McCartney III for example—confirmed that artists who need to create will find ways.
Trapped indoors, New York singer/actor Hilary Gardner found her musical muse wandering toward an unexpected place.
“The songs I was initially drawn to—because I’m in this one-bedroom apartment in downtown Brooklyn—were about life on the
