“Since 1995, New Zealander Rachel Shearer has created opaque, gurgling compositions under the well-chosen name Lovely Midget. Her music career began with two self-released CDs which soon caught the ear of Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, who promptly reissued her *Sings the Lost Chord* EP as a 10-inch on his Ecstatic Peace! label. Her first proper album followed in 2002 on Corpus Hermeticum. Prior to ”
