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PREMIERE: Listen to Morly's Latest EP 'Something More Holy'

The Minneapolis singer offers a sleek, minimalist kind of cut and paste soul.

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Know the name Morly? Familiarize yourself with it now. The singer made her first splash contributing atmospheric, layered, and eerily awesome chopped up vocals for Ryan Hemsworth's "Maestrom," as part of his Secret Songs compilation, but in recent months she's been stepping out on her own. First with her debut EP—In Defense Of My Muse (out on Cascine) and in recent months dropping the likes of "If Only Chords"—a hypnotic, slow-dive kind of R&B-pop, and "Plucky" which, just like its title suggests, picks up the sass with finger clicks and her sleek vocal syncopation. Songs that see her step away from working on instrumentals, bumping her rich vocals into the spotlight. With the help of producer Stint (who's worked a bunch with Gallant) we've got a whole EP, Something More Holy, premiering below. A little Jessie Ware, a little Alpines, a weeny bit James Blake, her this collection showcases two unheard songs.

"Something More Holy began as a collection of poems and disembodied melodies," explains the Minneapolis based singer. "It was mostly a process of unfolding the sounds from the words—and learning to trust and communicate with another artist."

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Something More Holy is out via Cascine on 4.8 on vinyl and digitally.