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“Maybe I am just the devil’s girl,” Austin native Jess Williamson sang in one of her early songs, each word croaked like something drifted up from the underworld. Williamson’s particular strain of folk is at once earthy and gothic, often seeming haunted by some invisible, vaguely tortured presence — a guitar creaks like an old staircase; the occasional pedal steel lick blows by like a sudden, inexplicable draft. Her songs are loosely structured and rarely have what you’d call verses and choruses; she prefers instead to let them unfurl into strange and twisted shapes. Sometimes she sounds like Angel Olsen or Joanna Newsom, but more often she sounds like a coyote — lonesome and half-rabid, howling into the sparse landscapes of her songs and then pausing, as if she’s waiting for an echo.
Williamson’s debut full-length Native State is only seven songs long, but it unfolds at an unhurried pace that makes it feel expansive. She wrote it shortly after leaving New York City for her hometown of Austin (she describes that change as a “period of turning inward and spending a good deal of time alone”), and, fittingly, these songs luxuriate in slow rhythms, compositional elbow room, and moments of quiet introspection. The stirring, macabre opener “Blood Song” begins as though it’s being sung by a sleepwalker (“Who can say what’s really real when there’s a veil between what you kinda see and what you kinda feel”), but it gathers force and vividness as the song moves on. Like Williamson’s most powerful songs, “Blood Song” gives you the impression that you are watching someone weaving on a loom in reverse: as time goes on patterns unravel, solid ground disappears, and by the end the the very bones of the thing lay exposed.

Tracklisting:
1. Jess Williamson - Blood Song (5:13)
2. Jess Williamson - Native State (4:14)
3. Jess Williamson - Medicine Wheel (4:18)
4. Jess Williamson - Spin the Wheel (4:16)
5. Jess Williamson - Field (2:25)
6. Jess Williamson - You Can Have Heaven on Earth (4:57)
7. Jess Williamson - Seventh Song (2:51)

Extra Informatie:
Aantal Discs: 1xCD
Genre: Indie Folk
Format: MP3 @ 320kbit
Year of Release: 2014 
Speelduur: 28 minuten
Cover: Front is in de RARs verwerkt