Vocalist Kitty Whitelaw and double bass player Tye McGivern are the doom folk duo Sealionwoman. Distorted double-bass strings rumble with dark, foreboding, sonorous energy; like a flashlight beam piercing a shadowy night, McGivern's voice cuts through Whitelaw's bass, singing plaintive, beautiful melodies. Illusive and alluring, Sealionwoman's music dabbles in celtic folk tales and mythology: their debut album Siren (2018) was inspired by the Scottish folk tale of the selkie – a creature that shapeshifts between human and seal forms. Their follow-up, Nothing Will Grow in the Soil (2024), moves from water to earth, taking the yew tree and its perennial persistence and pagan influence as a thematic focus. Sprouting from this concept, they nurture songs of droning excellence. As their music crescendos from minimalistic harmony into ritualistic chaos, a strange vibrational eeriness fills their songs – one that elicits the haunting world of the late Scott Walker.