“Like Raymond Carver before her, she leans into the uncanny and the poetic without resorting to grand settings or sweeping metaphors.”
That was Bandcamp’s assessment of Sarah Bethe Nelson’s new record Mental Picture when they declared it their album of the day last Monday. The album is a DIY affair, recorded at home due to early pandemic social distancing restrictions and closed recording studios. Spare arrangements rooted in Americana underpin lucid storytelling, creating hypnotic atmospheric soundscapes, all the while guiding you into a desert daze.
