The third full-length from Mina Tindle, SISTER is an album populated by mythic creatures of all kinds: lions on parade, lovers turned to cannibals, kings and Sirens and women with wings. Like any great fabulist, she threads her storytelling with a fragile wisdom, revealing essential truths about all the danger and wildness within the human heart. With each moment elevated by her spellbinding vocal work a gift shes shown in recording and touring as a singer for The National SISTER ultimately makes for a transportive listen, at turns impossibly dreamlike and profoundly illuminating.

Mina Tindle is the project of Parisian singer/songwriter and multiinstrumentalist Pauline De Lassus. Mostly made in New York City with producer Thomas Bartlett (Yoko Ono, Florence + the Machine), the albums elegant detail balances the odd magic of the songs with a fierce emotional realism. Give a Little Love, written and produced by Sufjan Stevens, channels intense longing, its soulful melancholy magnified by Stevenss warm background vocals. On Belle Pnitence, she shares a tender love letter to her husband (The Nationals Bryce Dessner), twisting the mood of lovely surrender with some fantastically brutal hunting imagery rendered in her native tongue. And on Lions, with its shimmering grooves, De Lassus offers up a bit of soft-hearted encouragement in the face of self-doubt: If the roads are made for a parade/Go march with the lions. She adds, You need to keep going, even if sometimes you feel like youre just pretending to be brave. Its all about the march.