The Wandering Lake is Brian Kupillas from Fayetteville, Arkansas. His sound is a lovely mix of meditative ambience and experimental folk (bringing to mind a range of artists from Grouper to Fleet Foxes, Animal Collective to Meursault), capped with his superb vocal work. There is a cathartic element to it, in a lonely late night headphones kind of way, but also in a freaky psychedelic, shamanistic campfire sort of way (if that makes any sense, you’ll know what I mean when you listen). Kupillas himself describes the work as “about scaling back, and building a stronger self and immediate community around oneself”.
His Bandcamp page currently has two releases, last year’s In Passage and Ashame, which was released in April of this year. Both come highly recommended and are available on a pay-what-you-like download basis.