Midwife is the recording project of Denver, Colorado musician Madeline Johnston, working in slowcore, dream pop, and ambient with whispered vocals over dense guitar drone. Forever (2020) and Luminol (2021) are the entry points, and 2023's No Depression in Heaven with Vyva Melinkolya is just as gripping. Explore Midwife vinyl, CDs, and reissues at Wax Trax Records.
Midwife is the recording project of Madeline Johnston, based in Denver, Colorado. She launched the project in the late 2010s. She also operates the project Sister Grotto (her earlier solo work). Her work has been positioned in the contemporary slowcore, dream pop, and ambient scenes alongside contemporaries like Grouper (Liz Harris), Have a Nice Life, and others. Her 2023 album No Depression in Heaven, a collaboration with Vyva Melinkolya, received critical attention.
Midwife's sound combines slowcore, dream pop, ambient, shoegaze, drone, and dark folk with Johnston's distinctive whispered vocal delivery, dense layered guitar drone arrangements, and atmospheric production drawing on classic slowcore and dream pop traditions alongside contemporary ambient music influences.
Whited Sepulchre and The Flenser pressings of the Midwife catalog have been issued in color variant editions and limited deluxe pressings.
Listeners new to Midwife typically start with Luminol (2021) or Forever (2020).
