A California songwriter whose minimal arrangements and ethereal voice explore loss and renewal.
If you want to get the feel, try 'Bessie Smith' or 'Nightmares On Repeat.' They're good examples of how she handles heavy themes without ever sounding heavy-handed.
Her music doesn't need much to land. Songs like 'Victorian America' and 'Washed Away' build whole worlds with just her voice and sparse instrumentation. She's been doing this since 2007's 'Dark Undercoat,' and the mood holds. It's folk that feels more like a private conversation than a performance.
She started writing in the early 2000s and put out her first album, 'Dark Undercoat,' in 2007. By 2016, she was working with Matt Berninger of The National on 'They Moved the Mountain,' but the core sound, that introspective, atmospheric folk, stayed steady.
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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