Finn Carraher McDonald is back, and this time it's under his Nashpaints banner. You might know him from Princ€ss, or from lending a hand to Maria Somerville, but this new record is all his own. Out today on MirrorWorld, it's a full-length of hazy, achingly tender songcraft.
Everything here feels out of time and place, in the best way. These are eerie little gems, drifting somewhere between bedroom folk and something more spectral. If you loved the textures he brought to the Princ€ss world, this is that instinct pushed further, slower, deeper.
The pace is patient. The mood is dreamlike. Track after track, McDonald builds these fragile moments that hang in the air long after they end. It's the kind of album you sink into rather than skim.
Nashpaints has been building toward something this assured for a while now. This record delivers it. Press play and let it pull you under.