Pale Spring Cygnus 3/4/16 the purity of her expression

the purity of her expression is both highly personal and universal

if taken as a whole it's a trippy and altogether loony experience

Blending the vocal power and emotional immediacy of mainstream country with the honest transmissions of writers like Townes Van Zandt and Terry Allen

Messing with both extremes of the sonic spectrum: atonal and arrhythmic

Originally released on Capitol (762)

Pale Spring Cygnus 3/4/16 the purity of her expressionPale Spring wrote and recorded CYGNUS in Baltimore, whose fertile music scene has seen acts like Lower Dens, Ami Dang and Beach House build rich, self contained worlds of sound. CYGNUS expands on this foundation, with stately, smooth pop songs incorporating layered harmonies, glitches, and, on "Old Sounds" dog barks. Music runs in Harper Scott's family: a classically trained musician herself, her grandfather studied at Juilliard under his uncle, who