Soul Whirling Somewhere - Please Sennd Help (2001)

Previously on OPIUM HUM:
Soul Whirling Somewhere - Eating the Sea (1993)

Fourth and seemingly final album from the great, unsung Soul Whirling Somewhere. The 'confessional' lyrical approach suggests emo, but everything else -- the reverb, the slo-mo, ethereal instrumentation, the ever-present sense of doom -- evoke the golden eras of 4AD and Projekt.

Track listing:
1. The Wedding
2. Nani
3. Aileron
4. Salt Angel
5. Shivering Fox
6. You Stutter When You Sleep
7. Box
8. The Sun in Braids
9. In On
10. Little Gaze
11. Gaze
12. Happy Valley
13. I Give Up. Goodbye.

Pale, near-virgin paper
Barely creased or ever read
The scent of your lipstick
Still preserved where you kissed it

More along these lines:

Lycia -
The Burning Circle
and Then Dust (1996)

The Hope Blister -
...Smile's OK
(1998)