If It's Too Loud...

Photo by Francesca McConnell Fort Collins, CO based folk duo Companion are perfectly melding traditional folk and folk pop on their latest single. Twin sisters Jo and Sophia Babb have released "If I Were a Ghost," which is a gorgeous single I want to call haunting but refuse to based on the song title. The new single sees Companion harmonizing in the way only sisters seem to be able to. There is very little instrumentation behind their vocals, despite how lush the song is. "If I Were a Ghost" is gorgeous despite the heartbreaking subject matter, or maybe because of it. Sophia Babb says of the new single: "Jo and I lost our father when we were 13, and in many ways, we lost our mom too. She was never the same after he passed. And though we felt empathy for her grief, it was hard to navigate adolescence while also growing up with a grieving, broken mother.  After a particularly hard day where the empathy wasn’t coming easily, I started writing in an attempt to und...

Photo by Francesca McConnell There seems to be a lot of duos out there these days like Lucius, First Aid Kit, The Secret Sisters, etc that are blurring the lines between folk and pop. Our latest discovery is Fort Collins, CO's Companion. Twin sisters Sophia and Jo Babb have released a new single, "Snowbank." The song is absolutely lovely, and despite how melodic and pop the song feels, it's distinctly not mainstream folk. The pair's harmonizing is truly what drives the song, and their voices have that quality that sounds like they are combining into one. "Snowbank" sounds like it's teetering on the edge of the mainstream and like it's going to head into a more pop territory multiple times, but it never quite does. Instead, it stays as this unique and lovely song that would be labelled as experimental if their voices weren't so traditionally perfect. Jo Babb says of their new single: "'Snowbank' was written the morning after a blu...