Julianna Barwick
“One Half”
Nepenthe (out August 20 on Dead Oceans)
Each day that brings a new Julianna Barwick song is a beautiful day. The vocalist is gifted with some of the most celestial pipes in the the game, and with the second single from her eagerly-anticipated second true, solo LP, Barwick could light up even the gloomiest of June days (it gets foggy in the summer in San Francisco).
The Brooklyn resident traveled to Iceland to craft Nepenthe and looks to have added a real orchestral quality to her vocal-led past works. Her debut LP, The Magic Place, was one of the albums of 2011, and her follow-up is shaping up to be a worthy successor.
