This edition of Indie Folk BOPS leans into the emotional margins, where storytelling gets strange, tender, and quietly powerful. This is folk music that looks inward, asks difficult questions, and still finds warmth in the dark.
Jessi Robertson – Shadow War: Singularity
Jessi Robertson turns vulnerability into something fierce and luminous, Shadow War: Singularity feels brave, searching, and really, really human
Jessi Robertson has always written from the edge, and Shadow War: Singularity sharpens that instinct even further. Inspired by ideas of othering, fear, and empathy, the track feels both intimate and expansive, folding myth and modern anxiety into a song that hums with tension and possibility.
Collaborating with Aaron Berg, Robertson opens the song into new emotional territory, letting space, restraint, and subtle shifts do as much work as the lyrics themselves. Her voice moves effortlessly, and it’s a brilliant vocal performance, shifting between softness and resolve.
Rooted in indie folk but unafraid of darker textures, this track sits somewhere between confession and confrontation. It is thoughtful, unsettling in places, and quietly reassuring in others. Jessi Robertson reminds us that folk music can still be a place for transformation, where difficult feelings are not smoothed over, but held with care and honesty.