Seattle’s Tiny Vipers – or Jesy Fortino as she’s known to friends – heads ‘Over Ambition #5’, Saturday October 3 at The Troubadour, presented by Making Hey and Half Back Flank. Fortino’s first ever Brisbane performance comes in support of new LP, Life on Earth, her second release on Sub Pop/Stomp.

Creating and performing the music for her new album with a singular approach, Life on Earth is Fortino’s private vision unfolding, at times crystal-clear and at other times shrouded in a mystical fog. People and times past wander through these songs like ghosts looking for a home.

Transcending the mere folk tag, Fortino leaves behind her contemporaries. Drawing on an array of influences, from country to the underground, Fortino’s unique, reductionist approach to accompaniment breathes an eerie sense of wonder through the themes that inhabit her lyricisms: love found and lost, places come and gone.

The persona of Life on Earth stands like a mountain watching the world go by; the future annihilates the past, consuming it like a fire. Yet this is no bleak dirge. There are triumphs hidden behind the sorrows. A shining hope permeates the threat of doom. Tiny Vipers’ performance is renowned as truly transfixing spiritual experience. It’s left a trail of audiences hushed and solemn the world over.

Joining the bill for Over Ambition #5 are local shamble-pop collective BIGSTRONGBRUTE, minimalist folk songstress McKisko, and country-folk horde, Lion Island. The show kicks off at 8pm.