Keiji Haino and Vashti Bunyan had a music baby. -Impose
Beru really raises the bar for haunting beauty and power at the intersection of exp. psych/folk! - Art for Spastics
Americana wrestles the glitch off the hill with time, and in the end, [Jessica] Collins appears more like a Samara Lubelski or Marissa Nadler for the dark. -Animal Psi
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On her cassette debut as Beru, Jessica Collins unravels a new American folk. What Would I Do Without You is both touched and untouched by tradition, mending the pieces of the world around her in collage. I first saw her destroying drums in the skronk-prov band Cat People, took a photo, and she unknowingly became the logo for TRHP. But as Beru, the LA-via-Georgia songwriter disembodies dub-noise, haunted gospel and improvised folk in loving, sinister ways. Her pastoral drones journey heavenward and pull the silver lining to Earth, collecting songs in the chaos. Limited edition of 100 pro-dubbed and imprinted c48 tapes with artwork by Kevin Phillips printed on vellum paper.
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1 Beru Reviewed En Francais // Nov 13, 2009 at 9:41 pm
[...] So the wind won’t blow it all away, which also featured Beru’s What Would I Do Without You in its podcast. (française version) Garé, je l’attends, dans l’après-midi, un peu [...]
2 Out Of Orbit And Ingest: Best Cassettes Of 2009 // Dec 17, 2009 at 10:56 am
[...] it goes without saying that the Beru and Robe. cassettes would definitely be on here, but, you know, conflict of [...]
3 Animal Psi Reviews Beru, Brian Olewnick Names Nick Hennies’ ‘Paths’ One Of 2009’s Best // Jan 4, 2010 at 2:46 pm
[...] Psi wonders why we haven’t sold out of the Beru What Would I Do Without You cassette. We’re wondering the same thing. Americana wrestles the glitch off the hill with [...]
4 Love Cry Hammer // Jan 27, 2010 at 11:03 am
[...] course, don’t miss out still new-ish cassettes from Robe. and Beru (almost gone), plus a CDr from Mothguts and split LP from I Heart Lung and [...]
5 Beru Featured On Art For Spastics // Feb 25, 2010 at 2:58 pm
[...] plenty of other out-there junk every week. So we were pretty excited when DJ Rick spun Beru’s What Would I Be Without You cassette. Here’s what DJ Rick says: Beru really raises the bar for haunting beauty and power [...]
6 Beru Covers “More Than Words,” Pocahontas, More // Mar 16, 2010 at 3:34 pm
[...] The last copies of Beru’s What Would I Do Without You cassette are here. [...]
7 KDVS Reviews Beru’s ‘What Would I Do Without You’ // May 12, 2010 at 10:45 am
[...] at one of our favorite college radio stations had this to say about Beru’s What Would I Do Without You: Jessica Collins, Beru, mixes her acoustic guitar songs, simple and haunting, with layered male/ [...]