Receiver

Receiver is the new album by The Rheingans Sisters, their first since 2018's Bright Field - a record that dazzled audiences and critics with its Leonard Cohen-esque lyrical imagery and strikingly inventive arrangements of violins, banjo, Bearnaise three-holed flute and Pyrenean stringed drum.

The affectingly plaintive voices of The Rheingans Sisters are used sparingly on Receiver, befitting the impressionistic direction the lyrics have taken this time. These are songs where the natural world is a palpable surrounding presence, or the most vivid and enduring element of a memory. There are myths and rituals, beauty, sadness and quiet political anger. There are tunes for the turning season, tunes for home and sleep, tunes for and about dancing that pulse through this record with deep, strange drones and the shadows of feet.