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"Guitarist/vocalist/songwriter/label boss Kaia Wilson has much to be pleased about these days. Her band, The Butchies, goes from strength to strength, maturing onstage and on record (last year's 3 was their finest yet) into one of N.C.'s finest bands. The band is so respected that they're nearly as high profile as Le Tigre, the biggest catch on Wilson's nine-artist strong Mr. Lady label. As busy and/or satisfied as that should keep her, Wilson has also made three solo albums, and her new release, Oregon, is pretty much what you'd expect a sensitive rocker to do with her free time: an acoustic album. And not a bad one either--when Wilson raises her voice above the intimate, sweet, adolescent singing that may make you feel like you're intruding on something private, she snatches your drifting attention right back." -- IndyWeek "Kaia's latest solo album, the largely acoustic confessional Oregon, is an exemplary representation of the under-the-radar, user-friendly female folkpop genre ... a solid, well-written, well-executed release." -- Pitchfork "Kaia Wilson is both a musician and activist who manages to operate within the dominant music culture as a truly underground artist who is able to maximize her power." -- New York Times Lovely. Sparse. Intimate. Subtle. Hushed. Enveloping. Building. Cathartic. This is the record that Jealous Butcher has wanted to put out for years. All of the emotion and spirit that made you fall in love with The Butchies and Team Dresch, hushed and distilled down into this collection of 14 songs, the narrative of a girl being in love with a girl. Never hitting you over the head, merely giving you enough to imagine the rest of the story, and presented through deceptively simple acoustic guitars, a few electric guitars, some keyboards, and beautiful building vocal harmonies. Acoustic pop songs, country ballads, atmospheric anthems. The mood is up then down, sly then serious, confessional then playful. Kaia has been telling us about her life for 15 years now, creating a long string of stunning vignettes. This is the closest she's come to writing a complete novel, and it was well worth the wait.