
Lusciously layered guitars induce a trancelike state in Matteah Baim's Blind Man's , a song evoking the infinite, playing the razor's edge of beauty and starkness of being. Such is the character of Matteah Baim 's darkly poetic songs. They're serious, best taken at night by candlelight and paired with a goblet of tannin-heavy wine. Barely twenty, Baim's already toured with Antony and the Johnsons, Devendra Banhart, Lichens, Pit Er Pat and Jana Hunter as a former half of Metallic Falcons (with Sierra Casady of CocoRosie). Baim's curious appeal inspired [...]