ET Recommends - 27: mertle

As intimate and sweet and rewarding as you could require.


Brief vignettes of smoking and kissing and children and washing machines and loneliness and missing presents. A lady and her guitar and a flustered handful of chords. I still think that somewhere - in one of Phillip Pullman's alternate worlds perhaps - that mertle is incredibly famous, beloved, an Ivor Cutler for the paunchy. But that would lessen her appeal to me, I guess.

I wrote a fair amount about mertle and her antifolk plotters a few years back in Plan B #25. You can find that here.

And you can listen to some of mertle's music here.

I'd highly recommend you do both.