“In The House Of Stone & Light” by Martin Page Covered By Beru from Jessica Collins on Vimeo.
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“macmac” 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/ female choruses, with pounds of reverb and delay, plus spontaneus noise spurts and changes into new themes. Overall its [...]

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Our favorite thing this week are the covers Beru has been posting to her tumblr: a minimal dub warp on Extreme’s “More Than Words,” a pretty faithful rendition of Aqua’s “Barbie Girl,” a cosmic-synth take on “If I Never Knew You” from Disney’s Pocahontas soundtrack and a defeated “I Want to Know What Love Is” [...]

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Besides This American Life and Radiolab, Art for Spastics (KDVS) is our most-jammed podcast at TRHP HQ. It’s two hours of primo weirdo-rock, garage, drone, punk and 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 [...]

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Animal 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 time, and in the end, [Jessica] Collins appears more like a Samara Lubelski or Marissa Nadler for the dark and harmony which is now so [...]

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Well, really, the title says it all, but here’s what Gregory McGreevy writes on Impose Magazine:
I’m a sucker for avant-folk females, so when Jessica Collins made what sounded like the music baby of Keinji Haino and Vashti Bunyan, well yeah, I was done from the start.
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From 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 avant quatre heures. J’écoute les éléments : le temps, les gens, le vent, les feuilles mortes ou non, un moment la pluie, une école à [...]

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We got a rather extensive label profile on the drone/ambient/jazz/noise blog Incomplete Tales of Several Journeys. You can read the whole thing, but check out these choice words.
Beru- What Would I Do Without You c48 [Purchase]
You will be dab in the middle of a pretty melody before a giant blast of noise hits you in [...]

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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. [...]

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