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from the b-sides collection All That You Start

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from the album the bluebird of happiness. with damien jurado on duet vox.

turn the wolves (w/damien jurado)

Lotte Kestner is the solo project of Seattle-based musician Anna-Lynne Williams, who spent the last decade singing in the band Trespassers William. Her solo music has elements of her shoegaze past and influences, but lies somewhere closer to folk, relying on multi-layers of vocals to fill in the spaces, rather than electric instruments. Anna-Lynne has collaborated with the Chemical Brothers, Delerium, AFI, Anomie Belle, Damien Jurado, Sadistik, etc. and also sings in the duo Ormonde.

Her music has ben featured in the television series The Young Pope, The Last Ship, and Catfish, and the films Maybe Someday, I Cannot Go On As I Am, and Epilogue. 

She has also released two books of poetry.

mailing list: http://eepurl.com/UTyGb

merchandise: https://lottekestner.bandcamp.com/merch

queries: lottekestner@gmail.com

"It’s like the Little Match Girl instead sold all of her matches and bought a guitar." 
- {Sic} Magazine

"In the vein of My Bloody Valentine, Jolie Holland, and perhaps even Codeine, those remarkable shoe-gazers that were part of Sub Pop's early catalog. Williams' music is moody, inward, and her lyrics are wonderfully unpredictable."

- Seattle Post-Intelligencer

"Even though it doesn't matter what she's singing--the mood translates well through melody and instrumentation--it's lucky for the listener that the lyrics are included in the CD booklet. The sheer poetry of the songs is remarkable."

- Seattle Sound

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