On Pluto, Maja Lena journeys from the pastoral to the cosmic. Last year's debut solo album The Keeper was crucially informed by the folk melodies of this world. Now, Maja Lena’s unique and singular artistry begins to imagine the musics of other worlds; spectral, space-age electronic music that’s gazing to the future but still anchored in her hard-won craft as a folk musician. Pluto is a sonically rich and masterfully-crafted album that underlines Maja Lena’s increasingly respected position as both songwriter and sound artist. The icy, electronic soundscapes of 1980s Japanese cinema and video game music - particularly that of Joe Hisaishi of Studio Ghibli - have been a key touchstone.
The Keeper was praised as a “rather wonderful and unexpectedly strange collection of pastoral folk songs full of idiosyncratic flourishes, brooding atmosphere and gorgeously warm, dusky arrangements" (Loud and Quiet Magazine) and was featured as a BBC 6 Music Album of the Day.