Obscuress “Maltha” cassette (Unifactor)

Obscuress is the duo of Texas-based musicians Christina Carter (Charalambides) and Spencer Dobbs, achieving new levels of solitary beauty in their consortium. Maltha is the project’s second full length album, and while these six lingering, lonely exhalations of sound sometimes take on the guise of structured songs, they reveal themselves to be more and less than that as Maltha plays out. It’s a quiet overwhelment of minimal guitar interplay, untraceable wisps of ambience, piano drifting in occasionally like light making its way across a room through a window, and Carter’s restrained vocals guiding us from one empty street to the next.