| Epiphany in Brooklyn | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Brenda Kahn |
| Border: | yes |
| Released: | 1992 |
| Studio: | Magic Shop, New York City |
| Label: | Chaos[1] |
| Producer: | David Kahne |
| Prev Title: | Goldfish Don't Talk Back |
| Prev Year: | 1990 |
| Next Title: | Anesthesia |
| Next Year: | 1993 |
Epiphany in Brooklyn is singer-songwriter Brenda Kahn's second full-length album, released in 1992.[2]
"I Don't Sleep, I Drink Coffee Instead," the first track on the album, was the song that helped Kahn land her major label deal.[3]
Trouser Press called Epiphany in Brooklyn "an album so melodramatically oversung that Kahn could be auditioning for the Ethel Merman part in some Broadway-does-folksingers production."[4] The Washington Post called the album "livelier and more tuneful than much neo-folk."[5] The News & Record called it "full of spiky energy and closely observed vignettes."[6]
Ann Powers, of The New York Times, wrote: "Her songs, many of which are featured on her new album, Epiphany in Brooklyn, focused on the small world of post-modern slackers, with the kinds of lyrics that college students copy into notebooks because they so accurately describe their confused, wishful lives."[7]
In 2022, music critic Chuck Klosterman listed Epiphany in Brooklyn as one of his top 20 favorite 1990s albums for American Songwriter. He wrote: "There’s probably some sentimentality attached to this selection. It’s impossible for me to separate my current appreciation of the material from the experience of listening to it originally. I had an inscrutable friend who loved this record even more than I did, and she would write me long handwritten letters quoting lyrical passages from its various songs, along with interpretations of how those lyrics related to her life and our friendship."[8]