Moon Blue The Moonlight Disco 777 Music There are two ways by which an artist can make the title of his record fit perfectly with the music within. One is to compose the music and then find a fitting title, the other is the have the title in [...]
Kassi Valazza Kassi Valazza Knows Nothing Fluff & Gravy Records Portland, Oregon artist Kassi Valazza defies the title of her latest album – Kassi Valazza Knows Nothing. She actually knows quite a bit it seems, and one of the things [...]
maud the moth + trajedesaliva Bordando el Manto Terrestre Time Released Sound Now, we’re talking about some serious dark stuff here. Yet, it is the kind of dark stuff that actually enlightens and makes the true darkness go away. Bordando [...]
Jeremy Tuplin Orville’s Discotheque Trapped Animal Records Can you label Jeremy Tuplin as a singer-songwriter? Not exactly an easy answer to that question, because, on one hand, sure, Tuplin is an artist who writes and sings his own songs. [...]
Terry Emm Wish You Were Here Azez Records/Shellshock British singer-songwriter Terry Emm, wasn’t around for a while (seven years to be exact, that is), at least in that role. Then, back in 2021, it was announced that his single “Gently” [...]
GracieHorse L.A. Shit Wharf Cat Records There are so many artists these days that are working in the Americana/roots/country rock domain, that it is often hard to distinguish between them, no matter how good and assured their music is. What [...]
Sister Ray Teeth Royal Mountain Records Sister Ray is Edmonton’s Ella Coyes (they/them), whose melodic touch, lyrics, and vocals simply stand out on their latest EP Teeth. It is no wonder that here they are supported by ginla, the Brooklyn [...]
Nick & June Beach Baby, Baby Independent It was about time that some other artists would be inspired by the Hollywood film/music combination of the 50s and 60s as seen and heard through the eyes and ears of Lana Del Rey, but inspired in the [...]
Esben And The Witch Hold Sacred Nostromo Records There was always a dark streak running through dream pop, with or without shoegaze touches, that made that dream element acquire some nightmarish tones, while still leaving that pop element [...]
Alien Eyelid Bronze Star Tall Texan Records For a band hailing from Texas, it might seem simple to travel in the sometimes clear, sometimes murky waters of roots rock/Americana. Whether those waters go clear or stay murky certainly depends on [...]
Rocky Roberts & Friends Pieces Of Time Wolfe Island Records Being a touring guitar technician for the likes of Wilco, Patti Smith, CSN&Y, Paul Simon, Lucinda Williams and My Morning Jacket can actually make you quite a select group of [...]
Dex Wolfe Vestiges Independent Back in 2020, we had this to say about Dex Wolfe’s music: “Brief musical notes conjuring all the better sides of David Byrne, Sparklehorse, and Sufjan Stevens work some real polymath magic.” Ok, [...]
Annie Blackman Bug Father/Daughter Records Being vulnerable and introspective is often one of the qualities many listeners look out for in singer songwriters. The problem can be that sometimes such artists go a bit too far in ‘barring the [...]
Scott Matthews Restless Lullabies Shedio Records With any process, there has to be a reverse process. Still, a key question remains there, particularly with music, which is the better one for the artist? In the case of singers songwriters, they [...]
Taj Mahal Savoy Stony Plain Records If there ever was a musical archivist (or a few of them) that actually was able to transfer his knowledge into music, then Taj Mahal is certainly one of those. Like Ry Cooder, his buddy from their early (and [...]
Be-Bop Deluxe Sunburst Finish (Vinyl Reissue) Cherry Red Records Going retrospect and missing the point can be quite harmful for an artist, but getting it right, picking a right artist and/or album to feature, can shed a new light not only on [...]
Easy Star All-Stars Ziggy Stardub Easy Star Records The name of the collective involved in recording this album, a reggae tribute to David Bowie’s legendary album Ziggy Stardust, might include the word easy in its name, but recording a [...]
Rose City Band Garden Party Thrill Jockey Is it really a bad thing that a band or an artist follows in the footsteps of other artists or bands? Of course not, particularly if the music they make is as good as the music of the bands or artists in [...]
Abigail Lapell Stolen Time (Deluxe Edition) Outside Music Exactly a year and a day after its initial release, Abigail Lapell is rereleasing her Stolen Time album, this time as a deluxe edition. So, what has happened to the Toronto [...]
Various Artists Brown Acid: The Sixteenth Trip RidingEasy Records Ok, is there really an answer to this question “will the “Brown Acid” series of compilations, now in its sixteenth edition, ever end?” Well, maybe it is not a [...]
Fur Trader Stuck In The Aching Again Independent How do you keep up the traditional sound of prime singer songwriters of late 60s and early 70s and at the same time present your music with an individual touch that sets you apart? Los Angeles [...]
ferna understudy Independent It is ok to be humble as a musician, particularly if you are just coming up with your debut album. But Belfast, Northern Ireland singer songwriter Hannah McPhillimy, aka ferna, as her debut album understudy shows, [...]
Fruit Bats A River Running To Your Heart Merge Records Fruit Bats and their songwriter Eric D. Johnson have been around for a while, and they have been constantly coming up with some of the more sophisticated, elegant, and often subdued folk [...]
American Grandma Rare Knives Of Light Independent American Grandma and its new album Rare Knives Of Light, is more strong proof that there is slowcore revival going on. Now, don’t just revisit those Codeine or Bark Psychosis albums, [...]
