She was raised on a wave-beaten island in the Salish Sea, left home at 15 to apprentice as a silversmith, contributed to the clatter of Vancouver’s noise and experimental scene, then ducked out of music to pursue environmental justice and human rights photojournalism. Plenty of fertile material for songs, then: the Canadian multi-disciplinary artist releases her fourth album Hard Hearted Woman this spring, a gothic and atmospheric that grew out of “a blur of cold-water plunges, long river swims, late-night ruminations with friends on art and politics, and long drives through the rural Lillooet landscape to visit her godmother.”
Country: Canada
Label: Sacred Bones