Greta Ruth is an experimental folk singer/songwriter.
Captivated by the endlessly-romantic lyrical “you” from her earliest memories, she continues to explore the blur between poetry and prayer — between the shadow of love and love itself — with her acoustic guitar and voice.
when her guitar strings have held as many songs as they’re able, she transforms them into adornments. you can find her guitar string jewelry here or at her performances.
thank you for listening.
press:
“greta ruth forgoes conventional song structures in favour of something more intuitive and evocative… often concise and fleeting, ruth’s writing combines personal thoughts with opaque images to allude to a certain mysteriousness” ~ various small flames
“greta's compositions flit between what could be described as bright-eyed atonality, with atypical harmonic structures that aren’t afraid to sink into the realms of dissonance… her careful attention to dynamics allows her tracks to sink into brief reveries before awakening back into steadily picked rhythms, and the artist's sense of constant tonal juxtaposition yields songs that seem to slide between disparate emotions with each measure” ~ river cities’ reader
“she sounds like someone exorcizing her demons rather than suffering their company. one can hope, anyway – there is quite a bit of melancholy throughout the fawn. it’s beautifully wrought and makes for an intensely intimate listen” ~ reviler
On Holy Omen:
“Greta Ruth’s latest album is a cold hush, a whisper from a delicate heart and the spirit of nature left to live wild and free.
Ruth’s poetic and wholly intimate songs feel even more personal and sacred with their stripped-down and elemental arrangements. With a gorgeously soft voice and healing lyrics, you feel as though Ruth is singing for your ears only. This is the soothing singer-songwriter record you didn’t know your soul needed” - record crates united