Etta’s new track is another haunting acoustic poem about loss. In “Before I turned Into a Tree” she changes her soul’s shape, she seeks to put emotional distance and a great missed “What If?” moment in her life.

I’m a Pantser. There, I’ve said it. I belong to one of the two types of writers identified by Stephen King, who, it’s probably safe to say, “knows these things.”

Penny dreadfuls were the first mass-produced form of serialized fiction, combining gothic horror, crime reporting, and urban folklore into cheap weekly publications. Their influence can be traced through Victorian magazines like The Strand and into modern serialized storytelling, including annotated and experimental fiction projects such as The Annotated Casebooks of Professor Manton Marble, which revive the form through footnotes, documents, and staged credibility.

In the last week, over 1,100 listeners have found their way into the quiet, devastating atmosphere of Etta Vale’s “A Ceiling Was My Sky.” We dig deep into the significance of addiction in music and feature some of our most provoking favourite tracks.

Discover more dark goings-on at DarkArc as Mujiki introduces new artist Ronja. A professor of Nordic mythology she is working with in-house production team darkStylus to create a new chapter in modern paganism.