While making her third album, My Light My Destroyer, Cassandra Jenkins set up a soundcloud page for unfinished songs called “Valley of Despair”. Loneliness and its corresponding shades and images — blue orbits, delphinium blue, dawn — feature heavily on the new album. But just as on the New York songwriter’s previous record, An Overview on Phenomenal Nature, her superpower is in celebrating the poetry of the everyday. Life-affirming stuff, and about as far away from the valley of despair as you could get.
Country: US
Label: Dead Oceans
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