For the past thirteen years Half Shadow, the songwriting moniker of Portland’s Jesse Carsten, has been unfurling an enigmatic, windswept music: equal parts earthen folk, supernatural rock and roll, and primal pop experiment. This is music made in celebration of life, synchronicity and the pervasive mystery that surrounds us.

Half Shadow’s newest EP, Wind Inside, continues the project’s work, enclosing four new dream-lit songs, which are at once searching, finger-picked poems, and bare-skinned declarations of personal growth.