Tara Jane O'Neil

Tara Jane O'Neil is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and visual artist, and over the course of 14 years she's released seven albums. Her eighth arrives on Kranky, a prolific American outpost known for releasing anything from the ambient dub of Loscil, to 40-minute-long modular complexions by Keith Fullerton Whitmann, to Tim Hecker's crash-heavy sound designs. The label now welcomes the ambient-leaning folk music of O'Neil which sounds like a sunnier version of Tropic Of Cancer, without the washed-out swathes of affected guitars or vocals. Instead, instrumental sounds are more solidified - guitars, percussion, brass - while textures move from the dissonant and atonal to harmonic and in tune, leaving O'Neil's soothing, to the point of therapeutic, voice, to complete what is a beautiful opus.