An Oslo-based folk songwriter who turns memory and grief into bare-boned, harmony-laced guitar songs rooted in Nordic nature imagery.
MOODS · intimate · melancholic · pastoral · bittersweet · austere · reflective · tender · wistful · earthy · quietly haunting
BIOGRAPHY
Juni Habel is a Norway-based folk artist who grew up on a family farm with six younger siblings, later becoming a schoolteacher who tends a kitchen garden and works with plant dye art. Early exposure to guitar came at age 10 from her grandmother, and Neil Young and Ane Brun were formative influences as she developed her style.
Her discography includes All Ears (2020) and Carvings (2023), the latter recorded in modest settings, a classroom, a hallway, and her bedroom, with contributions from her husband and family members. Carvings was shaped in part by the loss of her teenage sister in a car accident, and press coverage from outlets like SPIN, Paste, Guitar World, and The Line of Best Fit has treated her as a distinct voice in contemporary folk.
WHY THEY'RE COOL
Juni Habel writes with a rare intimacy, pairing exquisite vocal harmonies with sparse, thoughtful guitar work recorded in unpolished, personal spaces like a hallway or bedroom. Her songs use nature and the seasons as vessels for grief and memory, most strikingly on Carvings, an album born from personal loss that critics have called bittersweet, austere, and heart-achingly beautiful. She has earned attention from SPIN, Paste, Guitar World, and The Line of Best Fit for creating what one reviewer called her own folk wisdom from light and darkness.
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