Clara Engel / Mine
Country of origin:
Canada
Type of music generally:
Bluesy, indie
Status:
Most recent release, Ghost Bird (with Bradley Sean Alexander, 2021)
See also:
Clara Engel's bandcamp site
Comparisons:
Cat Power
Covers/own material:
Own
General comments:
Haunting, sparse, broken. This is utterly contemporary and homegrown. Its own genre, closer to blues than anything — not pop, not rock, not folk though with elements of all. (Neile)
Recommended first album:
A Lethal Blue is all we've heard so far
Recordings:
- A Lethal Blue (2004)
- Jump of Flame (2005)
- Cousin Mary EP (2006)
- Clara Engel (2006)
- Tender (2008)
- Raphael (Live at Tapestry Studio, EP, 2008)
- Secret Beasts (2009)
- The Bethlehem Tapes (2010)
- Clara Engel sings two songs by Jason Molina (live bootleg, 2012)
- The Lovebird's Throat (EP, 2012)
- Ashes & Tangerines (2014)
- Looking-Glass Fire (EP, 2014)
- We Are Not Here (soundtrack EP, 2015)
- What Should We Leave for the Monster Tonight? (single, 2016)
- Visitors Are Allowed One Kiss (EP, 2016)
- Your Halo is a Swarm of Bees (2016)
- Remixes (2016)
- Arctic Poppies (EP, 2017)
- Songs for Leonora Carrington (EP, 2017)
- Vigils (EP, 2017)
- curl into smoke and sleep beside the stream (EP, 2017)
- Stars, Reptiles, Microorganisms (2018)
- Where a City Once Drowned: The Bethlehem Tapes Vol. II (2019)
- In the Fog (EP, 2018)
- Eleven Passages (2018)
- A Shore Far from Any Prison (EP, 2018)
- Little Blue Fox (EP, 2019)
- Hatching Under the Stars (2020)
- A New Skin (2020)
- Ghost Bird (with Bradley Sean Alexander, 2021)
A Lethal Blue
Release info:
2004—Record Error Records
Availability:
Unknown
Ecto priority:
Recommended for fans of stripped-down indie music
Group members:
Clara Engel—vocals, guitar
Matt Russo—guitar
Guest artists:
Alex Vickers—cello on 2 tracks
Comments:
A Lethal Blue is stripped down to the point of haunting naked emotion. It's just Clare Engel's aching vocals and two guitars. I don't know if she's singing about broken hearts or broken lives, but it's moody, dark, dreamy, yearning. She has a Siberry-ish voice. Not too concerned with prettifying anything, but tuneful. (Neile)
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