Like a Bayou To Its Gulf by Christina Carter

For fans of Marika Hackman, True Detective season 1, and dark ambiance.

There are still places where the roads don't reach. Parishes hidden so deep in the backwoods, the outside world forgets they exist. It’s the record Like a Bayou To Its Gulf by Christina Carter that gives a glimpse inside of these insular communities where life goes on long after erasure from roadmaps. This haunting album centers Carter's voice as a storyteller, her poetry illuminatinh even the murkiest depths of the swamp, painting scenes of a childhood marked by adventure and danger in equal measure. The bayou is a place of otherworldly beauty, yet predators always lie in wait beneath knitted cypress roots. Carter's voice is a force of nature itself, wordless calls that evoke blue heron song and cicada chirps. Minimal guitar and accordion accompaniments pay heed to folk traditions born in this region. As the album reaches it's end, Carter's vocals morph into backmasking, an inversed dialect hiding the deepest secrets of the bayou.