Jakob Olausson’s previous album, 2005’s Moonlight Farm remains one of the most exquisite formulations of loner folk ever beamed from a basement in Northern Europe. Morning & Sunrise is its long-time coming follow-up and comes complete with a perfect weirdo Christian/private press style sleeve. The sonics have been slightly upgraded here, with less muzz and a bit more clarity to the arrangements but Olausson still comes over like a post-Silence Bob Desper, singing in a dark, echoing style w/oblivion breathing straight down his neck. Hard to think of anyone who can generate such a blasted atmosphere with nothing but an acoustic guitar and vocals - Joshua Burkett maybe? – while the more ‘rocking’ band based jams come over like the COM side never recorded by Virgin Insanity and with an odd dislocated teen garage feel that could almost be Virgil Caine. If his first record meant anything to you – and I can barely think of anyone who wasn’t sold on it – then this is the stone you’ve been hoping for, doomy, dark, basement-primitive loner folk with enough atmosphere to spook even the most committed solitary.