Tiny Vipers, who will be performing at LPR Friday night (June 26) showed up in the New York Times earlier this week. From BEN RATLIFF of the New York Times:

“Jesy Fortino, the young Seattle folk singer who goes by the name of Tiny Vipers, throws her stone into the water and waits, really waits, to watch the ripples. On “Life on Earth,” her second album for Sub Pop, you hear from her voice a big Neil Young vibrato, an idiosyncratic swallowing and opening of vowels, a beautiful reverb; from her guitar, a careful and slow arpeggiated picking of chords. This seems like music for or from some ritual; it matters to say that it happens mostly in real time, except for “Time Takes,” halfway through the record, where echoing acoustic overdubs hover over her strumming. She moves slowly, but she’s a good musician and singer; this is the surprise, because in her line of work you expect more dishevelment. Ms. Fortino may be a one-woman operation, but if you’re looking for good aesthetics, you should also remember the name Andrew Hernandez, the engineer who warmed it up in his analog studio.”