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Following
'Without the World' and 'Winter Lady', the New Zealander Alicia Merz of Birds
of Passage returns with her third album 'This Kindly Slumber'.
Like
a cocoon, this album will envelope you in its many layers. Quiet storms filled
with ambient atmospheres, densely layered choral drones, fragile vocals. Harsh
reverberation, gently lulled by sweet musings, offset by poetic and
philosophical lyrics, ebb away into blissful ambience.
With
allusions to dark-pop and classic broken-folk, the anti-climactic compositions
of Alicia remind us that she is a singer songwriter for people who don't like
singer songwriters.
Climb
into the cocoon of 'This Kindly Slumber'. This place of refuge will find you
when you most need it, take you to the world within its folds.