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"Equally steeped in Georgia stomp and Georgian chant, capturing the sound of songs played and passed down through generations, moldy and pungent with age and meaning." -- DUSTED "Guiding her way with little more than guitar, dulcimer, and multi-tracked vocals, Grimm here quilts together Born Heller's icy, backwoods songcraft; Jana Hunter's homespun, lo-fi shimmer; and the ecstatic vocal peaks of Christina Carter ... the influence of Grimm's roots in the Georgia foothills frequently creep through, lending the music a deep-set, handed-down fiber that sounds at once staunchly traditional yet still somehow quite unearthly." -- PITCHFORK "Her voice not only soars high, but swings low and earthy under itself." -- THE WIRE "These folkish excursions are fraught with translucent hallucinations and nuanced floating smoke dreams. If you could merge Devendra Banhart and Fursaxa into one being; it might sound like this." -- DREAM Larkin Grimm abducts you into her dreamscape/homeland, hidden behind veils of kudzu and falling water, populated by old friends and deadly monsters. Urgently direct, she is offering us a New World couched in old Georgia sounds: thunderstorms, dulcimers, foot stomps, handclaps, and pleading soul-blues. This is not precious forest-pixie music; this is the beautifully flawed sound of the force of nature, a Siren call to bind all souls and draw them into the deep woods. This year, Larkin Grimm has mesmerized audiences across Europe with a snowballing troupe of fans following her from town to town, and at the Terrastock 6 festival in Providence, where she has been noted as a festival highlight by almost every blogging `Scopehead on the planet. Grimm has shared bills with Devendra Banhart, Spires That in the Sunset Rise, Espers, Mi and L'au, and Brightblack Morning Light. Nomadic by nature, she'll be touring around the U.S. and Europe for the foreseeable future, continuing to win converts everywhere she goes.