Claude says:Nick Mulvey came up through Portico Quartet — the hang-drum ensemble that earned a Mercury nod in 2008 — before turning to fingerstyle guitar and his own voice for this gentle, circling debut. The title track weaves together hushed folk with faint traces of the Cuban and African music he studied, all built on intricate fingerpicking and breath-held restraint. You gave it one spin in early 2022, years after release, and never circled back.