Josephine Foster/Graphic as a Star
Rachel Blech
Josephine Foster, Graphic as a Star, Firerecords (FIRE 136)
As we tumble optimistically into a new decade, we must acknowledge an eerie phenomenon that took root in the American indie music scene during the noughties – ‘freak folk’, the sound of a ‘new weird America’ with homespun songs plucked and warbled by a new generation of troubadour eccentrics. Graphic as a Star is the latest solo album from Colorado-born Josephine Foster, a young singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and self-declared opera-school drop-out who takes a well-earned place alongside the likes of Joanna Newsom, Devendra Banhart and Bon Iver at the pinnacle of this curious genre. There’s been a recent spate of wannabe banshees and...
