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Darn

OK! So as I started looking over instrumental music for part two of this little series of posts, I realized I left some important stuff off my pop-and-pop-adjacent list of songs in the last post! (Again, [X] indicates Laura-Crossett-friendly tracks.)

Sarah Jarosz, “Blue Heron” [X]

Blue Heron Suite is an ep from Nashville folk singer Sarah Jarosz designed to be heard as a single work of music about Jarosz and her relationship with her mother while her mom was being treated for cancer, and it’s effective that way. I’ll confess, though, that I tend to skip to the climax and listen to the final song of the suite, “Blue Heron” with its beautiful soaring vocals.

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Cassandra Jenkins, “Hard Drive”

The spoken word delivery reminds me of Laurie Anderson. “Are you always this nervous? / I said [sings] ‘yes…’” The dual meaning of “hard drive” is corny. The low-key arrangement and instrumentation is compelling. I just like everything about this track.

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Emma Ruth Rundle, “Blooms of Oblivion”

This is really a recommendation for the full album Engine of Hell, but this song will give you a good idea of what it’s all about. Dark, moody, atmospheric, kinda gothic folk music maybe? I first heard Emma Ruth Rundle on last year’s fantastic “post-metal” album, May Our Chambers Be Full which she recorded with the band Thou. This one is just as heavy but not as metal.

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