Imagine if, whilst wandering down the smack-addled road to the Grunge Hall of Fame, Courtney Love had taken a wrong turn, got lost in the woods, swallowed a copy of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, and befriended a peacock. Stefanie Dosen is what you would get. Alright, the similarity probably ends with aesthetics, but indulge me.
Dosen describes her music as ‘cradlesongs for ghosts gone astray’ which might sound a tad pixie-pretentious. But listen to her voice float delicately over the Nick Drake-inspired guitars on ‘Vinalhaven Harbour’ and you just might end up surrendering yourself to the dreamy, fairytale world Dosen’s music inhabits.

The admission to friendship with a swan and a fox - a sentiment of oddity that runs through the lyrics of ‘Vinalhaven Harbour’ - may cause you to approach with caution. Once you are mere seconds into the song, however, you become enchanted by what sounds more like a cross between an ethereal Kate Bush and Alanis Morisette in her lighter moments than it does a crazed loon with an animal fetish.
‘Vinalhaven Harbour’ is from Dosen’s debut album ‘A Lily from the Spectre’, released on Bella Union earlier this year.
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Posted by laurasilver on Wednesday November 21st, 2007 at 1:16 pm