Midwife PRAYER HANDS (2018)

Late hour entry for album of the year, though it be but a 27 minute long EP. (Please Please Me was only 32, so it is within the margin of error for me.) Holy smokes is this terrific, like Grouper's older sister, escaped from the commune to make a High Desert guitar album, it sounds like Eastern Oregon, windswept and brutally gorgeous, a response to the joyful Sahara guitar maestros, a rejoinder from a broken Western world.  In a land that was once underwater and brought forth, to be examined, and submerged again.