Darning Woman by Anastasia Coope

Every day, we expose ourselves to little pockets of meaning that we have no context for, emanating from conversations in passing, sound bites misapplied, or sentence fragments abandoned. Anastasia Coope gives these incomplete thoughts room to breathe and develop on her new record Darning Woman, a progressive folk album with a fixation on vocal layering and sonic space. Striking an unlikely balance between traditional religious choirs, 50s vocal pop groups, and 80s experimental rockers, Coope’s enormous vocals overwhelm the otherwise understated acoustic guitar that accompanies them. From their beginnings as singular lines of dialogue, these memetic moments blossom into full-scale obsessions, struggling to gain depth as they occupy more and more of our mental space. A rootless tree shoots branches hundreds of feet in the air, only to collapse at the slightest breeze, swiftly overtaken by a new generation of saplings that repeat the cycle, an endless train of disembodied thoughts inspiring intense meditation before confusingly leaving the scene.