The title of Emily Jane White’s fifth album, They Moved in Shadow All Together, is a play on the opening line from Cormac McCarthy’s novel Outer Dark which hauntingly depicts a group of uncanny travelers descending a hill in the Appalachian mountains.

The eleven songs on the album focus conceptually upon the symptomatology of trauma with songs about the anti-racist struggle against police violence and the epidemic of violence against women set against a backdrop of mournful cello and tom-heavy drums to create a record that is both intimate and at times bombastic.

First taste comes with the outstanding Frozen Garden. Stream it below.

 

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