Tiny Vipers

Tiny Vipers – Hands Across The Void

An acoustical project of Seattle singer/songwriter Jesy Fortino, Hands Across The Void collects seven songs of acoustically quiet and darkly dreamy songs crafted with the simplest tools. With very little besides the strum of a guitar and the occasional addition of atmospheric texture, Tiny Vipers is built for campfire surroundings. With a voice that hesitates with the singing enunciation Joanna Newsom, Fortino powers her records with raw vocalized harmonies that are as sparsely haunting as a walk through an abandoned house that been re-occupied by nature. A sense of edge arrives half way through the album with “Forest On Fire”, as it crescendos from a few lazily plucked guitar notes into a wash of brash reverb distortion, that ends just before your nerves are wrecked. But pass this, everything is sparse in arrangements and easy to sink into. If you prefer your folk music with a slight darker edge, this is an adventure waiting for you.