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When I heard Greta Ruth’s The Fawn a couple years ago, I was initially taken by her voice and the way it hung like a ghost within the stark sonic field. It was so captivating. In the years since, her sound has developed and grown, but her voice continues to be the flame that holds it all […]
This week has been a trip. Around midnight on Sunday, a gnarly storm ripped through Tulsa, knocking out power to about 1/2 the city, uprooting 100-year-old trees, and doing all kinds of other damage. We get nasty storms here yearly, but this was different (basically a city-wide squall line with 100 mph winds). Thankfully, we’re […]
From the opening moments of “Till The Petals Fell,” Greta Ruth welcomes us into her sanctum. Rapid guitar plucks are a flickering cascade holding her enchanted vocals aloft, gliding across silk sheets and floral bounty as a timeless whisper in the ether. Glowing embers fill the quiet spaces of the song where Ruth gently needles […]
Greta Ruth is an artist with a clear, uncompromising vision who isn’t afraid of venturing out into the dark, deep waters and seeing what she can find. Her recent EP, Milk Tooth/Hull, sees her experimenting with vocal-only compositions and finding new, fertile ground. I hope it’s only a start and she mines these ideas deeper, but […]
I already wrote a little bit about Greta Ruth’s excellent vocals-only EP in The Capsule Garden, but in this new video from Elena Stanton fresh layers of “Milk Tooth” are revealed. Ruth’s vocal meditations feel even more otherworldly and fleeting against the stark black and white backdrop of Stanton’s imagery. “Elena’s visuals capture the feeling of oscillating within […]
Foxy Digitalis depends on our awesome readers to keep things rolling. Pledge your support today via our Patreon. It’s been a busy week to the point I’ve completely lost track of time. I woke up in a panic thinking it was Friday (I’m writing this Thursday afternoon) and that I hadn’t put together the Capsule Garden for this […]
On Greta Ruth’s lovely “At the Place,” dreams become tangible. When the lush, green video opens with her quietly lying in the grass asleep, it’s an invitation into this delicate world. Flittering guitar melodies scatter like seeds through the air. Tenderness laces the strings while her voice flickers across the song’s surface, timeless and haunted. […]