What happens when you bring classic folk song structures alongside post-Radiohead sampling and textures? When breezy 1940s radio vibrato is paired with foreboding, lurking strings? When pop hooks are coupled with angular, half-spoken hipster deliveries, a la Soul Coughing? On The World is Bound by Secret Knots, Noe Venable goes well beyond simply reconciling these polarized worlds- she finds beautiful, genuinely affecting synergy.

With bassist Todd Sickafoose sharing the production duties, Noe ties a collage of sounds, spanning decades and genres, into a cohesive, inviting, wholly new take on acoustic songwriting. Says Acoustic Guitar, "...the eerie guitar effects and hypnotic loops that haunt the corners of songs such as 'Feral' distance Venable even further from the conventional singer-songwriter genre, giving her more in common with Tom Waits and Radiohead than with Joni Mitchell or Bob Dylan."

In addition to joining Ani on a couple of tours, Noe has supported artists as diverse as Dar Williams, They Might be Giants, and Glen Phillips (Toad the Wet Sprocket).

To learn more about Noe, please visit www.noevenable.com.