It Is Cyclical, Missing You

Singer-songwriter folk-adjacent, alt-country-adjacent, etc, etc from Ann Arbor (now in Brooklyn); her voice is a beautiful weapon, always on the edge of a yodel sound, really sharp edges, funny contortions, and beautiful soaring passages; dense and expressive imagery; eclectic timbres from all varieties of musical influences—just lovely stuff
RIYL: Jesca Hoop, Fiona Apple, Angel Olsen, The Roches
FCCS on 7 and 13

1. (4:33) *** old-timey phonograph intro, into slow, minimalist folk arrangement; yearning and sad
2. (2:56) **** Looping, soaring midtempo/slow yodel-adjacent vox with spare, meandering fiddle and strings; yearning+hopeful vibe
3. (4:38) ***** medium-slow; mysterious minimalist forest-y folk sounds, flutes, etc; yearning but occasionally jaunty—nice variety of moods, a real journey
4. (4:09) ****** Hypnotic hiccup-~yodel gallop, pretty but rough and soaring, with classic folk hooks and spare but insistent arrangement (some flamenco sounds); majestic and somewhat crazy
5. (3:35) ***** Duet with [MALE VOICE; couldn’t find out who]; stomping tempo, some brass, twangy and catchy
6. (3:26) ***** Funkier and slinkier, much more angular, claustrophobic singing; ‘60s mod sound
7. (4:27) (FCC: shit) **** Slow, slow, slow; cascade of slowly-dropping drums; dirge with sweet and snarly vox buoying it, rising in energy and density
8. (5:06) ***** Elegant, almost Bakersfield sound; slow and stately but soaring—eventually a squeezebox solo
9. (5:05) ***** Slow and plunky, satiric and snarky tone in vox; the chorus has everything fall away, like being distant, spacebound; aching near-yodel; funny and angry—god, what she does with her voice is amazing
10. (3:49) **** Looping, 1970s-influenced burgundy rec room pop-folk vibe; keep-on-trucking vox with yearning steel guitar, etc backing
11. (5:01) **** More ripe and humid sound (clarinet, etc), midtempo with steady beat; hopeful
12. (3:17) **** Simple, natural vibe, strumming guitar and piano and fiddle and folk-inflected vox; slow and soaring with rough timbres
13. (3:00) (FCC: shit) **** Old-timey string quartet recording intro (??), slow chanteuse-y vox into defiant counterpoint to string backing; low-key outro, fading like a dying vacuum tube