Midwife is comprised of the joined forces of Madeline Johnston (known as Sister Grotto) and Tucker Theodore under the Antiquated Future records. The two artists went to the miraculous world of slowcore shoegaze or, as the record house claims, drone pop. And it's great news because "Prayer Hands" makes a beautiful and super sad album, perfect for long evenings.
It combines the magic, noise atmosphere with Johnston's otherworldly vocals hidden somewhere in the backgrounds. This combination makes me thing of Grouper's music which is something perfectly in the halfway between dream pop and the shapeless but emotionally reach ambient. This is this kind of music in which guitars are more responsible for creating the atmosphere than melodies and the vocals are just another source of the delicate noise mixing with the rest of the music like tears in the rain.
"Prayer Hands" costs 4 USD.