Globelamp, Tashaki Miyaki
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In 2011, Globelamp—the moniker for Olympia singer/songwriter Elizabeth Le Fey—released a self-titled EP that was more than a little reminiscent of Portland’s own Dear Nora. Songs like “Crystal” and “Warrior Heart” imbued vocal-heavy, ’60s-influenced indie pop with a bliss-seeking, borderline new-age naturalism akin to Dear Nora’s Mountain Rock (or, going even further back, Donovan’s A Gift from a Flower to a Garden). Globelamp’s 2014 LP, Star Dust, was a more ambitious affair that found Le Fey stretching into varied sonic territory—reverb-laden opener “Breathing Ritual” targets the psych set and “Witch House” might be the only time an artist with significant indie cred has evoked Jefferson Airplane. MORGAN TROPER