Description: An elliptical, lyrical debut that explores the pleasures and hazards of ritual, devotion, divination, and illusion, examining what it means to believe.
Review Quotes: "In Softly Undercover, lyric's devotional mode is both thrall and throe: the powerlessness and pain of being in relation to a higher power, of being 'a constant / hostage to mystery.' These masterful poems make stringent, witty music. 'Three times removed / from any grip on home, ' Hanae Jonas writes, 'which place is the real life?' Instead of answers, the stark beauty of these lyrics offers just enough succor to sustain the ardent devotion of us, 'the earthly alone.'" --Brian Teare