Singer-songwriter Dorthia Cottrell’s second album, Death Folk Country, explores death as a source of horror and of comfort. | ✍️ Monica Kendrick
Singer-songwriter Dorthia Cottrell hails from King George, Virginia, a rural town about an hour and a half from Washington, D.C. Best known as front woman of underrated Richmond doom-metal band Windhand, Cottrell also makes solo recordings that recall the beauty and terror of the music of her youth—the folk songs she heard with family as well as the goth and alternative rock she gravitated to on her own. Her new second album,,is mesmerizing and beautiful.
Its second single, “Take Up Serpents,” is based on the Bible verse that has inspired churchgoers in Pentecostal Holiness denominations to handle snakes and drink poison, and its joyous country-gospel sound makes it one of the album’s most soothing songs—if you don’t think too hard about its themes. “Midnight Boy,” with its slinky, smoky, crunchy guitar, celebrates a demon lover with delirious horniness.
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