A cello elevates this indie folk mewler. Our highlighted track “Cut Flowers” by ribbon is meditative, for sure, if not “devotional” (per the Bandcamp genre descriptor tag). You want devotional music? Check out SOMA. There is a mantric element, though, in the gentle repetition of the lyrics, underscored by what sounds like a light tremolo somewhere in the mix. If you repeat a phrase, any type of pattern, enough times, in the right way, it will attain a kind of transcendent quality. Hence, serialism in modern art of all varieties, which, combined with minimalism (ascetic aesthetics!), harks back to certain kinds of religious music making. Am I talking myself into the ‘devotional’ tag? Off the full-length I Watched The Ribbon.

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