JOSEPHINE FOSTER - DOMESTIC SPHERE

Released: 07/04/23

There’s always been a ghostly quality to Josephine Foster’s music, but with her 10th solo album, the stunning Domestic Sphere, the Coloradan singer-songwriter has conceived a full-on haunting. It is in essence an extra-sensory radio play in two acts, wherein creaking doors, mewing cats, and the sounds of insects and birds are intricately stitched together with Foster’s ethereal voice and lightly-strummed guitar to create a rich atemporal sonic tapestry. Perhaps you’re familiar with the work of the Latvian parapsychologist Konstantīns Raudive (kind of a real-life Peter Venkman), who claimed that he could hear the voices of the dead on the audio recordings that he made, which he called electronic voice phenomena. Well, I’m betting he never heard anything as otherworldly as the utterly beguiling songs on Domestic Sphere.