Anastasia Coope - Darning Woman Artist_Kid Koala stripping back layers to reveal

stripping back layers to reveal the heart of their artistry

finishing off with the lyrics and vocal melodies

the Canadian-trio of Al Sow

a quietly thorough feminism in vision

Utterly faded

Anastasia Coope - Darning Woman Artist_Kid Koala stripping back layers to revealThe feeling that Anastasia Coope's music transmits seems to emanate from a precipice beyond the material world, like a void or memory pressing up against the veil. Its exacting and enveloping, but unmoored in space and time: ghostly, spectral, far out folk. Darning Woman, her debut album, feels like a dispatch from another past. Akin to lullabies or nursery rhymes, its minimal folk instrumentation contorts into something staccato and strange led by