In an Instagram post about her new LP of home recordings and rarities, Patty Griffin dubbed"a collection of songs that you can only get when you're by yourself at three o'clock in the morning." That description doesn't quite do full justice to the appeal of these lo-fi shards, but it captures the quiet impact of the intimacy of the songs, and even the lonesome wisp that trails in the solitudes of just the songwriter and guitar or piano.
" A sprawling maelstrom of reverb-drenched accents, unspooling guitar, and sultry intonation, the French Sixties mood record features vocals from Thievery Corporation's LouLou Ghelichkhani. Hauntingly, Alex Maas hallucinates poetic:"," as wafts of Middle Eastern melodies and dissonant convulsions coalesce into a cerebral split fever dream. Cole Porter put it best: too MF hawt. Which makes Kalu James' new single and video positively quenching.