Sometimes the world is so loud. It feels like now, more than ever, we all have our elbows out and we're jostling for space, and we're shouting to be heard. And I'm not just talking about jockeying for a spot on public transport in the morning, or a performer standing on top of a fibreglass mountain howling his importance, but just every day we're shrieking across the internet, pleading to be heard and acknowledged.Sumie is the antithesis of this. Her music is quiet and contained, stripped naked like a birch tree in the dead of winter. Sumie makes the most of just one voice and the pluckings of one acoustic guitar, so that when she does allow layers of harmonies to swell it sounds like a gift. There's something refreshingly isolated about her eponymous debut album, like early Jose Gonzalez, who coincidentally also hails from Gothernberg, Sweden. Fun fact sidenote: Sumie is the sister of Little Dragon singer Yukimi Nagano, but Sumie's music hovers suspended in a galaxy apart, where everything is simple and beautiful.Sumie's debut album is out on Bella Union on December 3. Stream it in full below!
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