
Painterly folk songs with brittle guitar and voice
Based in Glasgow, United Kingdom · From United Kingdom
Sparse guitar figures, brushed dynamics, and a voice that stays close and unforced. The songs tend to feel improvised at the edges, with melodies that hang in the air and then slip away.
Robertson works across music and painting from Glasgow, with records that sit between private-songwriting and art-world collaboration. She’s moved through circles around Dean Blunt, Mica Levi, Oliver Coates, and Sidsel Meineche Hansen.
The Wire says she started out as a musician and painter, and that collaboration expands her vocabulary.
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