Sarah June – In Black Robes

We first found out about Sarah June when she sent us a copy of her first album This Is My Letter To The World (2008) on our friend Timothy Renner’s Hand Eye label.

When Timothy shifted his focus to Stone Breath and Sarah June was looking for a label we were happy to add her to the Silber roster. Goth folk, wyrd folk, & attic core are some terms that can easily be thrown at her music; but we just prefer to call it good. Oh, and the comparison of her voice to Alison Shaw’s (Cranes) is inevitable.

As a child, Sarah June avidly played piano and guitar. She began writing songs as a young teen. At 18 she dropped out of school to pursue music, playing live in Chicago & Detroit before settling in San Francisco. Sarah June’s music is largely inspired by the haunting images of urban wasteland of her youth in Detroit. She records her songs alone in her apartment, being careful to capture sincere and intimate recordings. Her signature sound is a uniquely fragile and childlike voice, vivid storytelling in her lyrics, and a classical/jazz inspired guitar style.

Sarah June’s sophomore album In Black Robes is a fitting reply to her first release – more distinctly personal and more intricate in musicianship. Her strangely fragile yet rich voice floats over guitar that is hypnotically simple, yet unexpectedly intricate. She effortlessly draws the listener in with visual & metaphor-rich songs focused on unique and timeless themes of death, love, and loss. Thirteen songs filled with ghosts and late-afternoon sunlight. Moments of past lives and dreams captured in music. – Silber

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