Lady Lazarus, aka Sylvia Plath-nodding San Jose-to-Savannah multi-instrumentalist Melissa Ann Sweat, is self-releasing her debut full-length Mantic next week. Her work's been compared to Grouper -- a general lonesome lone psych thing's there (at times), but her approach is more along the lines of experimental free-folk Finns like Lau Nau, Kuupuu, and Islaja. Also, rather unexpectedly, the recording technique (especially ...