MILL FARM

"On their Avia Gardner début, 'More Than Tongue Can Tell', Mitchell Akiyama and Jenna Robertson invited listeners into a world of sepia-toned melodies and delicate instrumentation. The Montreal group's follow-up, recorded in the isolation of the Massachusetts countryside, leaves most of the Baroque frills and digital intervention behind. 'Mill Farm's spare, lo-fi beauty reflects a process of withdrawal into a hidden room where instruments were the only furniture. In this, 'Mill Farm' is as much ritual as music. It tells its stories with the eyes-closed throb of Animal Collective, the lyrical spider-webs of Joanna Newsom, the front-porch lilt of Akron/Family, and the acoustic unhinging of Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice." www.lowlands.be