专辑简介

Having cut her songwriting teeth over the last six years with the experimental band Sticklips, singer/guitarist Johanna Warren strikes out on her own with her solo debut "Fates," a collection of nine darkly beautiful songs about loss, love, hope and despair. Inspired by the early recordings of Elliott Smith, Warren intended to capture honest, intimate impressions of her songs as she experiences them in her own head.

Recorded over the course three days in a spooky old attic in upstate New York, "Fates" was a deeply personal collaboration between Warren and engineer/co-producer Bella Blasko. The two women crafted lush ambient atmospheres with purely acoustic instruments, creating impressively rich sonic landscapes with remarkably sparse arrangements. Johanna’s ethereal vocals, accompanied by unconventional chord structures, intricate fingerpicking and forlorn woodwinds cast an eery spell that is at once hauntingly strange and timelessly beautiful.