The Salt Doll Went To Measure the Depth of the Sea is the fifth full-length studio album by American indie-folk band The Low Anthem, released on February 23, 2018 on Joyful Noise Recordings.

[1] It was composed by Ben Knox Miller in the days following a traumatic automobile accident that devastated the band, sending members to the hospital and destroying their instruments.

That night I was reading Kay Larsen's biography of John Cage, Where the Heart Beats, and came across the Salt Doll fable.

My turntable was running 24 hours a day and I set up a signal chain with crossovers and guitars pedals and electronic and physical filters, and the room was filled with continuous hypnotic sound.

A lot of the sounds on Salt Doll comes from tiny sources, like a chopstick scraping the rim of a brown paper bag or a record needle bouncing in a divot.