If Magic Dirt’s fuzzed-out rock is tailor made for lairy Saturday evenings, the debut solo album from vocalist and guitarist Adalita Srsen soundtracks the troubled Sunday morning. For the most part it captures the singer alone with her electric guitar, with Hungry Ghosts founder J.P. Shilo offering occasional accompaniment. It’s a sparse, hypnotic, at times free-form combination that recalls Nick Cave and PJ Harvey at their most solemn. It’s fitting that the album exists in the shadows, given the tragic circumstances surrounding its creation. Srsen began writing the record with the encouragement of Magic Dirt bass player, Dean Turner—her confidante, producer and former boyfriend. Sadly, Turner succumbed in 2009 to a rare form of cancer he’d been battling for nine years, putting a temporary halt to the album’s production; it was released in 2010. The album is dedicated to Turner, and the song “The Repairer” confronts his predicament head on. Written while he was still alive, it was inspired by the moment Srsen realised he hadn’t beaten his illness: “I am the grim repairer/I come to your door/I’ve arranged to pull out your pins/I’m your man to end all things”.