Tiny Vipers
Life On Earth

Tiny Vipers’ Life on Earth is a bare-bones acoustic testament to the suffocating solipsism that dampens our mind’s thin tin roof like rain, rain that,...

For some reason, it seems as if the United States churns out more earnest singer-songwriters than does any other country in the world. We produce spar...

Sometimes music can be too much. I recently saw Abe Vigoda play here in Toronto and their sound was so loud and so intense it practically winded me o...

Seattle folk minstrel Jesy Fortino, a.k.a. Tiny Vipers, expresses herself with languorous, smoky silences -- in the hesitations between her intricate ...

When people talk about good headphones albums, they tend to mean loud records—albums like Loveless or some other crushing sound that surround yo...

Tiny Vipers is the stage name of Jesy Fortino, signed to Sub Pop. Folk would be the best way to describe the music contained within Life on Earth, but...

Jesy Fortino is Tiny Vipers and Life On Earth is almost all Jesy. Life On Earth features her sweet, haunting vocals backed by only by a single acousti...

Vincenzo Natali’s 2003 film Nothing takes its two central figures, Andrew and Dave, and positions them in a characterless white void. The big endless ...

I've spent a great portion of the year, thus far, submitting myself to big, buzzing, exclamatory records. It's been a marathon of bells, whistles, noi...

Visual art has its negative space, psychology and philosophy speak of lack, science continues to grapple with the great mystery of dark matter, and or...