The Stranger:
Eric Grandy interviews Jamie Spiess, who performs under the name Husbands, Love Your Wives. Grandy describes the Seattle musician’s songs as “shar[ing] a simple sonic formula: a few chords slowly, gently strummed on an acoustic guitar, her voice singing a halting melody, all recorded to a single mic with plenty of ambient hiss and hum…Her stark songs are teeming with ghosts—of her friends, of her horse, of imagined and yearned for babies—and image-rich details: walnut shells, apple trees, blackberries, bassinets, cold hands, empty apartments, selfish mouths, lifted skirts.”