Quiet the Room is a worthy addition comparable to Julianna Barwick's The Magic Place and The Innocence Mission's We Walked in Song, chamber folk reveries so entrenched in their own little worlds you can practically live inside them.
Discussions of fear overwhelm the songs on this record, and not in a negative way – we get to see raw emotion turned into beautiful folk songs, a form of art which embraces all aspects of life.
Quiet The Room is her debut full-length — a sparse, haunted affair that relies on dreamy vocals, acoustic guitar and occasional piano, plus layered, ambient noise to fill the gaps in-between.
Within its ambition, and for those who are open to its fainting beauty, it contains entire worlds.
Dreamy and deeply mysterious, it's less that you listen to Quiet the Room than you grow accustomed to its enigmatic rhythms.
The opening guitar notes of They Quiet The Room transport me to the comforting feeling of #2000s City & Colour. When the vocals begin I’m felt further welcomed into an almost campfire setting of wonderfully restrained sounds and present vocals.
The transition between tracks continues to draw you in to the more whispery introduction of Building A Swim which almost drowns in it’s ocean sounds but rises again off the foundation of a steady and beautifully strummed ragged guitar. ... read more
Ghostly melodies abide in haunted memories. Skullcrusher's debut takes all the best qualities from her peers and spins one of the most emotionally fulfilling and dream-like folk records of the year.
She reminds me of Phoebe Bridgers but with a little more of a experimental sound palette I like it
Although I found this record certainly enjoyable, I feel like it could have played to its strengths much better. I found the better songs on this album to be those that focused more on ambient sounding guitars combined with mesmerizing vocals. Several of the slower songs (often piano-centric) seem to fall flat for me. Best song was Whatever Fits Together but the opener also really caught my attention.
1 | They Quiet the Room 3:33 | 86 |
2 | Building a Swing 3:36 | 69 |
3 | Whatever Fits Together 3:45 | 85 |
4 | Whistle of the Dead 1:19 | 70 |
5 | Lullaby in February 4:35 | 74 |
6 | Pass Through Me 2:24 | 82 |
7 | Could it be the way I look at everything? 0:37 | 67 |
8 | Outside, Playing 2:08 | 72 |
9 | It's Like a Secret 3:26 | 77 |
10 | Sticker 4:11 | 79 |
11 | Window Somewhere 4:25 | 80 |
12 | (Secret Instrumental) 1:19 | 75 |
13 | Quiet the Room 3:24 | 78 |
14 | You are my House 3:08 | 82 |
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