Blog: Direct Current

Ode to Sentience (June 12, U.S.), the third album in as many years from critical darling and brooding "dark folk" singer/songwriter Emily Jane White , is another finely-crafted edition of self-described "reflective, contemplative songs." Recorded in her home town of San Francisco, White's stark, haunting music has found an appreciative audience in Europe where Sentience was released last year, a more welcoming home, perhaps, to the album's lushly ethereal atmospheres and tense, fleeting beauty. "I'm drawn to writing sad songs", she says matter of factly. "I'm OK with that." This is, after [...]