DANIEL NUNNELEE JUNE, BABY INDEPENDENT It just might be the case that Daniel Nunnelee, as a true Southerner (born in Memphis, and now located in Nashville), has decided to call his debut album June, Baby after the cover of a Merle Haggard/Willie [...]
PERRY BLAKE DEATH OF A SOCIETY GIRL MOOCHIN’ ABOUT RECORDS There is a tragic coincidence that came a week or so before Irish singer-songwriter was to release his latest album Death of a Society Girl, which celebrates his 20 years as a [...]
MAX BLANSJAAR FALSE COMFORTS BEANIE TAPES Ok, so you are born in Amsterdam, raised in Oxford, and end up recording with Katie Von Schleischer in Brooklyn. That is the brief story of Max Blansjaar and his debut album False Comforts. The main [...]
LARA TAUBMAN THE GOSPEL OF GETTING FREE ATOMIC SOUND RECORD COMPANY There is a certain assured quality that was tied with the prime, 70s era of West Coast singer-songwriters: excellent songwriting, strong lyrics, and detailed arrangements and [...]
BOULDER FIELDS WITH ALL THE OTHER GHOSTS LET THERE BE NUMBERS Edinburgh, Scotland artist Cam Fraser has been around for a while, starting out as a punker with Cateran (supported Nirvana in UK back in 1989), then worked with Borrowed Books, and [...]
EAMON FOGARTY I’M AN ANIMAL NOW ORPHEAN KIOSK RECORDS How much of the (for some dreaded) genre of prog rock has filtered through into another ‘dreaded’ genre of singer-songwriter? Quite a bit it seems, particularly as both [...]
JESSICA WILDE TEACH ME HOW TO LOVE ABSOLUTE LABEL SERVICES When critics aren’t sure where to neatly categorize a solo artist, they usually reach for that often clumsy one – singer songwriter. Yet, these days, quite a few artists [...]
SLOW JOY MI AMIGO SLOW JOY MICK MUSIC Slow Joy is Dallas via New Mexico artist Esteban Flores, who started out back in 2020 with a pair of singles that made quite some impact on TikTok, with kind of an indie rock sound that isn’t usually [...]
IDAHO LAPSE ARTS & CRAFTS Back in the 90s and on into the new century, Jeff Martin and Idaho were coming up with some of the best sounds within what was dubbed as slowcore. While all the sounds connected with slowcore slowly went into the [...]
THE BIRD CALLS OLD FAITHFUL RUINATION RECORD CO. Taking a similar route to the likes of Bill Callaghan and/or Will Oldham, often means that the artist in question is an individual that prefers solitude to create some delicate, well, [...]
ANASTASIA COOPE DARNING WOMAN JAGJAGUWAR Being labeled as a singer-songwriter and taking quite an experimental route with your music can be both a blessing and a curse for an artist. Doing that on your debut album, as Anastasia Coope does on [...]
DAVID PICCO UNTIL NOW INDEPENDENT So, the singer-songwriter scene, with those artists leaning towards the more roots/Americana sound is getting a bit crowded these days. It is getting harder and harder to make an impact, particularly if you are [...]
ANDREW BIRD SUNDAY MORNING PUT-ON LOMA VISTA RECORDINGS/CONCORD RECORDS Andrew Bird is one of those artists that never stood still, nor does he now, even when he is in a way taking a look back, as he is on his late offering Sunday Morning [...]
RISING APPALACHIA FOLK & ANCHOR INDEPENDENT Doing a covers album is far from easy, as some might think. You don’t simply sit down or stand up and cover a song you want and/or love. An emotional connection to the song is not enough. [...]
BLITZEN TRAPPER 100’S OF 1000’S, MILLIONS OF BILLIONS YEP ROC It has been a while since we had a chance to hear from Blitzen Trapper, four years approximately, and it is always welcome to hear back from them, no matter which [...]
ABBEY MASONBRINK RISING INDEPENDENT Basing your music mainly on your vocals and banjo, might not be so unusual if your songs fall solely in the folk or bluegrass genres, but Kansas singer songwriter Abbey Masonbrink doesn’t think that [...]
MARUCOPOROPORO CONCEIVE THE SEA FLAU Japanese artist marucoporoporo might currently be a relatively unknown act, after all, Conceive The Sea is her debut album, with a previous EP back in 2018. Yet, the quality of this, not so easy definable [...]
BUILDINGS AND FOOD ECHO THE FIELD INDEPENDENT Strictly defining certain body of music and trying to fit it snugly within a certain genre, can be a tricky process, particularly with artists that don’t care much about where their music fits, [...]
ABIGAIL LAPELL ANNIVERSARY OUTSIDE MUSIC Spill readers are by now probably aware of Abigail Lapell and her recent series of atmospheric, slow-burning music that at no point stands still or tries to fit within any specific genre or subgenre. On [...]
JACKIE WEST CLOSE TO THE MYSTERY RUINATION RECORD CO. Walking the trails that can fall under the category of ‘singer-songwriter music’ can be quite a tricky one, particularly if you concentrate too much on yourself and your [...]
SEASONAL FALLS HAPPY DAYS INDEPENDENT If the name of the band, the album title, and the album’s cover lead you towards for many dreaded new age category, you would most probably be quite off the mark. That ‘most probably’ [...]
CAMERA OBSCURA LOOK TO THE EAST, LOOK TO THE WEST MERGE RECORDS Camera Obscura is back after a hiatus of quite a few years and you might not say that they are back with a vengeance, but you may with the usual melodic detail and sophistication, [...]
JESSICA PRATT HERE IN THE PITCH MEXICAN SUMMER Those familiar with Jessica Pratt might be mainly accustomed to her excellent songwriting usually based on her no less incredible vocals and acoustic guitar. Her songwriting was always that good [...]
LYD MARIE /LOVE GOES INDEPENDENT Lydia Froncek, aka Lyd Marie is one of those artists that seems to never be satisfied standing still. After all, she started her first band at the age of eight, she was a member of Austin, Texas’ all female world [...]
