Nora Stanley

Nora Stanley’s “Glass” is a quietly gorgeous debut. Previously known as an instrumentalist, Brooklyn-based Stanley has found her feet as a songwriter with remarkable speed and apparent ease, her primary muse the poet Anne Carson. As the album progresses, personal and political themes twine inseparably around each other. Perfectly timed and executed with a grace and lightness extraordinary for a debut.

Nora Stanley has spent years as a saxophonist and improviser on records by Cassandra Jenkins, The New Pornographers and Beth Orton. Now she steps out front. Her solo debut “Glass,” out July 31st via Worm Records and co-produced with Nate Mendelsohn, arrives with lead single “Noble Gas”, with Wendy Eisenberg calling her songs ‘subtly devastating.’