Album Review: Jennifer McAuliffe, Border Crossing

Jennifer McAuliffe. Photo by Dave Cyr

Jennifer McAuliffe is adorable, and she knows it. I've had the pleasure of watching Jennifer perform stand up before we were all locked in our six hundred square foot nightmares, and it was nice to hear her peppy voice pipes pour through my ears once again. Her vocal demeanour is somewhere between a mid-western mom and a Canadian teenager who chatted you up at a skate park, which is particularly apropos as she comfortably border crosses into U.S soil in her debut comedy album.

Her sweet energy massages her confessions, from drunk swiping on catholic dating sites to admitting her problematic attraction to basic white men. She points out that we are all still attracted to pure bred puppies, you just don't TALK about it. That doesn't mean she's down for the patriarchy, "It's called cat-calling because you can see the asshole", which I think was my favourite observation of the evening. 

Jennifer is a ball of chipper anxiety and rage, and honestly same same. Dating can be hard, so listen to Jennifer McAuliffe's chronicles of dating in your thirties and be comforted in the fact that it will be a while until you have to go on another in person first date like hers again.

Border Crossing was released February 12, 2021.
Listen to it here