There’s an almost supernatural quietude in Juni Habel’s music, a calm that reaches out of the speakers and stills the soul. The Norwegian songwriter tends to sing in a near-whisper, close to the microphone, sometimes competing with the ambient hum of the room, but don’t mistake her low volume for a lack of power. Habel is in total command of all her instruments — her gentle but resolute voice, the fingerpicked acoustic guitar that encircles her singing like a tangle of vines, the subtle strains of organ and piano that serve as moss on the forest floor of her songs. Her third album, Evergreen in Your Mind, is pastoral folk music as slow cinema; meditative but deceptively intense, and impossible to turn away from once you’re under its spell.

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