Minru

Minru is the project of Caroline Blomqvist, a Swedish musician from Gothenburg, and music came into her life when she picked up a guitar as a kid and became obsessed with learning to play it, even skipping school to spend extra hours mastering the instrument. After playing around in a few bands in her hometown in her teens, she moved to Berlin, and it was in the German capital that music took a step up in seriousness for her, as she became a guitarist in different bands and toured across the country. After a while, she began to feel the urge to express herself musically and find an outlet for her own songs, and that made for the beginnings of Minru.
Minru’s songs are painted in soft tones, and they tell their secrets in whispers, but that doesn’t dull the power of the music on Liminality. These songs, built up from winding layers of acoustic guitar, piano and strings, are moving testaments to grief and loss, a dreamlike actualisation of wandering lost between those heavy feelings. The soundscapes are skillfully constructed, each summoning up their own carefully crafted atmosphere, and they make Liminality the kind of record that rewards total attention - if you give this album your time, it’ll give you its soul.

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