Blood Bank
Four songs of winter isolation that bridge rustic, tape-warm acoustic folk with pioneering, heavily layered vocoder experimentation.
Four songs of winter isolation that bridge rustic, tape-warm acoustic folk with pioneering, heavily layered vocoder experimentation.
It's the perfect four-song winter soundtrack that bridges his cabin-folk roots with crazy vocoder experiments.
An icy, winter-locked introspection that finds warmth in nostalgic memories and fragile vocal harmonies.
Winter saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.
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