Jolie Holland

Jolie Holland – Haunted Mountain (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 40:55 minutes | 460 MB | Genre: Folk, Singer-Songwriter, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cinquefoil Records

Jolie Holland’s ‘Haunted Mountain’ is a beckoning, confronting place. At once ancient and of the moment, it hums with literary and political interconnections. The songs illuminate states of dispossession and alienation, lust and pollination: a state of reciprocity with our living planet. The record is a creation beyond genre, a refined jewel refracting anti-patriarchal dance music, sultry anti-fascist love songs to bats and bees. The album’s rendered environments – ranging from sparse acoustic constellations to dense electronic atmospheres – are punctuated with nuanced percussion from cicadas, drums and even knuckles on piano. These sound-worlds were produced and animated by a trio of multi-instrumentalists: Jolie Holland, Adam Brisbin and Justin Veloso. Helping to conjure ‘Haunted Mountain’, the great magician Buck Meek of Big Thief authors the third verse of the title track, and duets with Holland on “Highway 72”. In an audacious conspiracy, both Meek and Holland include versions of their song “Haunted Mountain,” and both name their records after the song. After all, it is fun to say.

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Jolie Holland – Wine Dark Sea (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:03 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Alternative
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Anti – Epitaph

Jolie Holland has always embodied everything weird and wonderful in the history of American music, but Wine Dark Sea takes it to a new level. Raw and unrestrained, bristling with kinetic energy, Wine Dark Sea is unlike anything she’s ever recorded, but is also the purest and most assured evocation of Holland’s vision to date. A joyfully unrestrained masterwork, the record delivers: louder, noisier, raw and visceral. It is an inventive and fiery reimagining of delta blues, free jazz, classic r&b and country, infused throughout with a no wave abandon.
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