Mojave 3 - "Spoon And Rafter" style_Hip Hop making her the first solo

making her the first solo female artist ever nominated in the category)

Created in the rural woods of Pennsylvania over the span of a couple years

Famed (and notoriously curmudgeonly) rock critic Robert Christgau dubbed this "the all-time rock-era torch record" and the Library of Congress included it into the national registry

Their sound

desperate struggle for love and the elegiac 'Rush On

Mojave 3 - "Spoon And Rafter" style_Hip Hop making her the first soloMojave 3's founding members are vocalist guitarist Neil Halstead, bassist vocalist Rachel Goswell, and drummer Ian McCutcheon, members of definitive shoegazers Slowdive. The band broke cover in 1995, when a six track demo impressed 4AD sufficiently to offer them a deal. Never ones to sit still, Spoon and Rafter marked a shift for Mojave 3. While still containing echoes of singer songwriters and alt country, the record represents a Technicolor