Since moving to New York from Sweden, Lindahl’s musical language has taken her interdisciplinary language studies to a whole other level. "Square Earth" is her long-established but somewhat quieter debut album and one of the things that makes it special is the way the rich melodic atmosphere of the opener spreads out and takes in the distant distant, mystical. The album builds up over several hours, peeling away the layers of sound that would usually keep listeners in the first place. On “Masked Magic” a small band gathers on a train platform to perform a folk dance; on “The Turning” they gather around a fire to gaze into the future; on the title track they sing a small-group prayer in tribute to their dead colleague. The quieter pieces, like the one where they share a stage with glockenspiel and other low-key musical instruments, are clearly written for a mass audience. But the mysticism of the songs underneath is something that would have been quite popular a decade or two ago.