The gentle guitar plucks and delicately layered vocal harmonies in Skullcrusher’s songs may belie the artist’s nom de plume, but there’s always been something a little dark under the surface. That haunted quality seeps through the restrained melodies of her fall 2025 release And Your Song Is Like a Circle, resulting in sonic Rorschach blots not unlike the softer moments of Sigur Rós. She’ll cast that spell in Austin this Friday at Mohawk, with h. pruz’s subdued, folk-tinged confessionals opening the set. If you’ve been in the market for a moody yet elevated indie-folk fix, you can’t do better than this. – Katie Hayes
