Naima Bock- Below a Massive Dark Land

But there's power in the solitary, too. Giant Palm was arranged with collaborator Joel Burton, but going this one alone in search of something that was truly hers, Naima found she was capable of more. After me and Joel stopped working together, she remembers, it was an impossibility to even fathom doing arrangements myself but then I started learning violin and it was possible. Finding that she could go it alone was incredibly powerful for Naima: I think I needed it, to be able to feel proud of something. Beyond the writing process, however, the record is not a stark, stripped back affair. Below still has the majesty that made Giant Palm so remarkable. Having tugged the first record down from the skies and spreading it across the earth, Naima finds a newfound vocal power and confidence born from hundreds of hours on stage, and the music sounds fuller, more tangible, and no less enveloping. This can be heard on the albums lead singles: Kaley feels fresh and surprising in it's rug