hemlock, iceblink, lamplight

hemlock is the swamp-raised, “phone-fi" alt-folk project of multi-disciplinary creative force Carolina Chauffe, currently anchored between Louisiana and Chicago, but more often on the highway.

Doggedly DIY, they have toured nearly nonstop for the past few years on “permatour”, prioritizing non-traditional and alternative venue spaces such as house shows. Both following and expanding true folk tradition, they strive to return music to where it has always existed - the porch, the waterside, the field, the home.

Iceblink is a homespun, intimate project conjured by Lynn Avery in Minneapolis. As a trans woman, everything she creates is about her experience and Lynn describes "Carpet Cocoon" as her comfort album, music to retreat to in the winter. Informed by her passion for mixtapes, oddities and crate digging blogs, the album is eclectic yet cohesively spun around the aesthetic of a bedroom new age album. Sonically, it has a fuzzy and rounded vibe incorporating nylon string guitars through vocoders, textural Prophet synthesizers, flutes and filtered saxophone. The effect of "Carpet Cocoon" is stunning and personal, melancholic yet idyllic, a spiritual ritual of baths for lying on your bedroom floor.

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