DESCENDED | BOSTON GLOBE

The sounds of 617: Local music aficionados choose their favorites of the year

Maria Finkelmeier and Jean Laurenz, “Descended” (LP) Maria Finkelmeier pairs with the great-great-grandniece of the journalist and ghost-story connoisseur Lafcadio Hearn. “The dark side of Danny Elfman meets David Lynch with a hint of voodoo,” according to Leslie Miller Jewett, business manager at the Record Co