“Toronto's Liz Hysen has spent over two decades building spectral, shape-shifting slowcore that refuses to settle into any fixed form.”
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Curatorial notes
When Liz Hysen began recording under the name Picastro in 1998, she was deliberately distancing herself from assumptions about women who write songs — this was the Lilith Fair era, and her hushed, spectral music had more in common with the stewing undercurrents of slowcore and post-rock than with anything the industry expected from a female singer-songwriter. Red Your Blues (2001) announced the...
