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Jolie Holland is eerie and provocative on her new album ‘Haunted Mountain’. This collaboration and parallel release with Buck Meek (Big Thief) is spellbinding, and a foray into the sonically experimental. Holland conjures unsettling beauty the way poets Dante Alighieri, William Blake, and Sylvia Plath have. And she dives straight to the pathos of a song like Mavis Staples, Skip James, or Tom Waits do. Prepare yourself for sultry anti-fascist love songs to bats and bees (‘Orange Blossoms’) which illuminate states of dispossession and alienation, lust and pollination.

“Noir, lived in, caustic, not entirely of this time”
Aquarium Drunkard