amparo

Maria Usbeck's Amparo is out today on Cascine.

Although we were certainly fans of her work in the "voguish summertime goth" new wave band Selebrities, Maria Usbeck's timeless solo debut LP is a somewhat unexpected, subtly dazzling triumph that registers as one of the most pleasant surprises of the year...

"una mano, una cruz, un milagro, un sentido"

Here's another wonderful record that, like the Merely LP we mentioned earlier today, sort of came out of nowhere recently and just gets deeper and floors us more with each subsequent listen. Maria Usbeck's sublime debut full-length Amparo was "written and recorded across the span of three years in Ecuador, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Barcelona, Lisbon, Easter Island, Costa Rica, the south of Flor