Altered Zones

Mushy's Faded Heart full-length sounds like a field recording of slow-mo psychic bloodshed in a crumbling coliseum; it's a debut of uncanny mystique and ghostly enigma, beyond the glummest dreams of most drag apprentices. Listen to "Losing Days," for instance, where she drenches pages torn from Zola Jesus’ grimoire in the swamp where Christine Baxter drowned, deep in the woods of a death country shrouded in thick ambient mist, and roamed by shapeless beasts of Lynchian origin. --20 Jazz Funk Greats

MP3: Mushy: "Losing Days"

Faded Heart is out today on Mannequin Records in CD and LP formats, packing bonus remixes from Newclear Waves, Soft Metals, Heinrich Dressel, and Crossover