Laurelin Kruse

Laurelin Kruse is a girl from Colorado stuck in Brooklyn and this song is about how she’s always trying to get the hell home. She says “It’s like a meteorite crashing into a Spaghetti Western. Plus, ya know, folk music.“

Sounds about right to us, as does the song. Good stuff.

It is called Jupiter, listen to it. Download it. - Mad Mackerel

Laurelin Kruse is a girl from Colorado stuck in Brooklyn and this song is about how she’s always trying to get the hell home. She says “It’s like a meteorite crashing into a Spaghetti Western. Plus, ya know, folk music.“

Sounds about right to us, as does the song. Good stuff.

It is called Jupiter, listen to it. Download it. - Mad Mackerel

Laurelin Kruse is a self-described ‘Colorado Girl stuck in Brooklyn’ and “Jupiter” is about how she is always trying to get back home. There’s an eerie, enchanting melancholy to this song with it’s deliberate guitar playing and big sky at night feel. The EP, Winter in Mind, was written in late 2011, recorded in early 2012, and finally mastered in September 2012. It’s a delightful set of six songs that mixes the dream pop, folk, and country and western genres. Stream and pick up the entire EP on Bandcamp. - The Dadada

There’s always a story about missing home, especially one that finds the subject exploring those emotions through the world of creativity. Here we have Laurelin Kruse, a “folkster” with a very crisp sound. Lush and beautiful, Kruse has a distinct, penetrating voice, that howls with heart and soul. Very nice tunes for the nesting part of your day. - Hazy Acres

Languorous and fetching, “Jupiter” is all slow-motion swing and achy melody. For a sparsely instrumented song, the vibe is rich and dark. Kruse has a velvety, k.d. lang-ish voice and she plants it into something of a ghostly setting, with verses sung over a distinctive rhythm section—a nimble, deep-register thumping that’s either a very percussive bass or a very tuneful drum or, maybe, resourceful programming. There’s something of a cartoon graveyard in the sound, a feeling augmented by the minimalist guitar work and an evocative electronic crash or two. The verse takes its time. Do not be in a hurry.

A delicious wash of a drum roll (0:56) deposits us into the chorus, which offers a grand payoff, with that pining, melody and a busier but vague aural landscape that now seems to be incorporating some strings and a new guitar sound or two. This is wide-ranging, lonesome music, and I have no particular idea what she’s singing about (even with her apparent hint; see below), but those repeating words hit me, mysteriously, in the gut: “And seventy years/Is still too soon.” And then, those equally mysterious and yet more disconcerting parting words: “Keep your hat on.” Hit repeat. Keep listening. It’s hard to stop once you start.

I learned about “Jupiter” through a short email sent by Kruse herself. Yes, that’s sometimes how I find out about things. Needless to say I get kind of a ton of email and most of them either try too hard, or too little. This one hit a rare sweet spot. “I’m a girl from Colorado stuck in Brooklyn and this song is about how I’m always trying to get the hell home,” she wrote. Also: “It’s like a meteorite crashing into a Spaghetti Western.” Maybe it is and maybe it isn’t but I liked her email and I like this song. It’s from an EP entitled Winter in Mind that Kruse self-released earlier this month. You can listen to it, and purchase it, from Bandcamp. You can download “Jupiter” via the link above, or at Kruse’s SoundCloud page, where you can also leave a comment for her if that’s your idea of a good time. - Fingertips Music

Languorous and fetching, “Jupiter” is all slow-motion swing and achy melody. For a sparsely instrumented song, the vibe is rich and dark. Kruse has a velvety, k.d. lang-ish voice and she plants it into something of a ghostly setting, with verses sung over a distinctive rhythm section—a nimble, deep-register thumping that’s either a very percussive bass or a very tuneful drum or, maybe, resourceful programming. There’s something of a cartoon graveyard in the sound, a feeling augmented by the minimalist guitar work and an evocative electronic crash or two. The verse takes its time. Do not be in a hurry.

A delicious wash of a drum roll (0:56) deposits us into the chorus, which offers a grand payoff, with that pining, melody and a busier but vague aural landscape that now seems to be incorporating some strings and a new guitar sound or two. This is wide-ranging, lonesome music, and I have no particular idea what she’s singing about (even with her apparent hint; see below), but those repeating words hit me, mysteriously, in the gut: “And seventy years/Is still too soon.” And then, those equally mysterious and yet more disconcerting parting words: “Keep your hat on.” Hit repeat. Keep listening. It’s hard to stop once you start.

I learned about “Jupiter” through a short email sent by Kruse herself. Yes, that’s sometimes how I find out about things. Needless to say I get kind of a ton of email and most of them either try too hard, or too little. This one hit a rare sweet spot. “I’m a girl from Colorado stuck in Brooklyn and this song is about how I’m always trying to get the hell home,” she wrote. Also: “It’s like a meteorite crashing into a Spaghetti Western.” Maybe it is and maybe it isn’t but I liked her email and I like this song. It’s from an EP entitled Winter in Mind that Kruse self-released earlier this month. You can listen to it, and purchase it, from Bandcamp. You can download “Jupiter” via the link above, or at Kruse’s SoundCloud page, where you can also leave a comment for her if that’s your idea of a good time. - Fingertips Music

Even from the rugged opening twangs of Jupiter, Laurelin Kruse establishes herself as a quite singular talent in that the track – a woebegone chanson concerning its author’s desperate attempts “to get the hell home” to Colorado – carries that same melodrama made a mainstream interest by a certain New Yorker, though filters it through some wondrously desolate desert blues and grits it with a genuine sincerity. It may not be a comparison which sits easy with Kruse, though it’s meant as an outwardly effusive blandishment and while she sings of following “your tracks back where you’re from”, it’s where she’s going as opposed to those who’ve gone before her that is now of utmost intrigue. - Dots and Dashes

Last week I did a run after work in the light wearing a t-shirt, I thought Spring was here at long last. I was wrong. Yesterday it was like being caught in a Siberian wind and today is equally frozen, although I appear to have escaped any snow here. To compensate I'm going to bring warmth in the form of music.

Brooklyn via Colorado's Laurelin Kruse released her EP, somewhat aptly titled Winter in Mind in January and its a golden pot of Americana styled folk to transport you to vast, spacey desert plains. Opener "Yarblar" and "Forest Fire" are stomping Jenny Lewis-esque country/blues numbers accented by driving percussion and reverb-drenched guitar perfect for a roaming car journey whilst "Golden Waves closes the EP on a more intimate note as it somewhat eerily moves along with gentle, sparse percussion soothing as Laurelin's achingly beautiful delivery melts heart and soul.

"Jupiter" is the jewel in the crown though, bursting with sultry, melodramatic beauty, twanging guitars and purposefully slow pacing, it instantly takes you to a similar place as a certain Chris Issak track, windswept and forlorn with haunting moodiness and seductive whispers, atmospheric and just down-right gorgeous. You can buy the Winter in Mind EP via bandcamp now. - Just Music That I Like

Last week I did a run after work in the light wearing a t-shirt, I thought Spring was here at long last. I was wrong. Yesterday it was like being caught in a Siberian wind and today is equally frozen, although I appear to have escaped any snow here. To compensate I'm going to bring warmth in the form of music.

Brooklyn via Colorado's Laurelin Kruse released her EP, somewhat aptly titled Winter in Mind in January and its a golden pot of Americana styled folk to transport you to vast, spacey desert plains. Opener "Yarblar" and "Forest Fire" are stomping Jenny Lewis-esque country/blues numbers accented by driving percussion and reverb-drenched guitar perfect for a roaming car journey whilst "Golden Waves closes the EP on a more intimate note as it somewhat eerily moves along with gentle, sparse percussion soothing as Laurelin's achingly beautiful delivery melts heart and soul.

"Jupiter" is the jewel in the crown though, bursting with sultry, melodramatic beauty, twanging guitars and purposefully slow pacing, it instantly takes you to a similar place as a certain Chris Issak track, windswept and forlorn with haunting moodiness and seductive whispers, atmospheric and just down-right gorgeous. You can buy the Winter in Mind EP via bandcamp now. - Just Music That I Like