Tiny Vipers Raises Hands on Sub Pop

Tiny Vipers Raises Hands on Sub Pop Photo by David Belisle

Sub Pop Records: indie lifestyle label? Once midwife to grunge, the celebrated Seattle imprint now seems happy to offer indie musics for all occasions. Planning a party? Crank that CSS record. Wooing a crush? Take your pick: Postal Service, Iron and Wine, the Album Leaf, or Dntel. Funny bone need a tickling? Try the Cross/Mirman/Oswalt hat trick. Neighbors getting on your nerves? Wolf Eyes and Pissed Jeans to the rescue!

And if you're feeling down-and-out, alone and isolated, a wee bit weepy and self-pity-prone, or just plain contemplative, perhaps the debut from Seattle singer-songwriter Jesy Fortino, aka Tiny Vipers, is just the thing for you. Her previously mentioned Sub Pop hello (now an LP), Hands Across the Void, arrives July 24 and includes seven tracks of spare, quiet brooding and aching melancholia. Just the thing for a rainy day or a post-CSS comedown.

Tiny Vipers play Seattle's Chop Suey tonight (May 15), along with Sub Pop offshoot Hardly Art's first signing, Arthur & Yu.

Hands Across the Void:

01 Campfire Resemblance
02 On This Side
03 Aron
04 Forest on Fire
05 Shipwreck
06 Swastika
07 The Downward
Posted by Matthew Solarski on Tue, May 15, 2007 at 3:30pm