SISTER

The third full-length from Mina Tindle, SISTER is an album populated by mythic creatures of all kinds: lions on parade, lovers turned to cannibals, kings and Sirens and women with wings. Like any great fabulist, she threads her storytelling with a fragile wisdom, revealing essential truths about all the danger and wildness within the human heart. With each moment elevated by her spellbinding vocal work - a gift she's shown in recording and touring as a singer for The National - SISTER ultimately makes for a transportive listen, at turns impossibly dreamlike and profoundly illuminating.Mina Tindle is the project of Parisian singer/songwriter and multiinstrumentalist Pauline de Lassus. Mostly made in New York City with producer Thomas Bartlett (Yoko Ono, Florence + the Machine), the album's elegant detail balances the odd magic of the songs with a fierce emotional realism. "Give a Little Love," written and produced by Sufjan Stevens, channels intense longing, it's soulful melancholy magnified by Stevens's warm background vocals. On "Belle Pénitence," she shares a tender love letter to her husband (The National's Bryce Dessner), twisting the mood of lovely surrender with some fantastically brutal hunting imagery rendered in her nativ