Julianna Barwick The Magic Place

• Envelop
• Keep Up the Good Work
• The Magic Place
• Cloak
• White Flag
• Vow
• Bob in Your Gait
• Prizewinning
• Flown

In 2009, Julianna Barwick released her album Florine on her own, but it didn't take long for her one-of-a-kind sound to catch the attention of the Asthmatic Kitty label, which is the home for the follow-up, The Magic Place. Barwick says this album's title comes from her nickname for a tree on the family farm where she grew up, but when you hear the way she creates her own brand of ambient music by multi-tracking layers of her own wordless vocals for a celestial-sounding effect, you may have other ideas about the derivation of that name. 

Abstract by Jim Allen