THE HAPPY PILL ACADEMY POSTCARDS TO AND FROM A DOOMED CIVILISATION INDEPENDENT Being all over the place musically does not usually spell good things for an artist and their music. On the other hand, if you are so well-versed in a number of [...]
Allison Lorenzen Tender Whited Sepulchre Records Sometimes an artist can truly resemble another. At other times, they are creating their art along usually a very thin line between two or more artists. In the case of Allison Lorenzen, [...]
Brian Wilson At My Piano Decca Records How should you consider an all-instrumental piano album of the songwriting genius that is Brian Wilson, best known for coming up with probably the best vocal harmonies in modern music as a member of The [...]
MIKE CIDONI LENNOX & CHRIS MAY WITH RICHARD CARPENTER – CARPENTERS: THE MUSICAL LEGACY PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS BOOK REVIEW BY LJUBINKO ZIVKOVIC Karen and Richard Carpenter were making music at the time when prog and heavy rock [...]
Lee Ranaldo In Virus Times Mute In Virus Times. What might have seemed like a science or speculative fiction title even in Autumn of 2019 now is a reality check one two years on. Many artists have decided to record music dealing with their [...]
Log Across The Water Funny How The Colors Crash Symbols When an artist dubs himself (or herself) as Log Across the Washer, you are bound to hear something that is certainly a bit out in left field, something that you would either love or discard [...]
LIONLIMB SPIRAL GROOVE BAYONET RECORDS Lionlimb is yet another moniker, this time of one Stewart Broanaugh, a bandmate of ever-growing talent of Angle Olsen. And on the evidence of his solo album. Spiral Groove, Broanaugh, or Lionlimb might just [...]
Willie Nelson The Willie Nelson Family Legacy Recordings Even with all Willie Nelson fans there was always a sense of familiarity whenever one of the greatest country (and other music) stars releases a new album. They would always know to expect [...]
The Roseline Constancy Buzz Music Does Lawrence, Kansas sound like a good place to breed a band that is hitting exactly the right target when Americana music is concerned? It should, because The Roseline, from Lawrence hit exactly that target [...]
Various Artists Brown Acid: The Thirteenth Trip RidingEasy Records Those who are already following this series, possibly now have one question – when are RidingEasy Records head Daniel Hall and his crate-digging partner Lance Barresi, [...]
Janet Batch You Be The Wolf Independent Very often, it is impossible to escape your past. This particularly holds true when your musical influences and inspirations come into play. More or less, it all comes down to the music you’ve [...]
Tōth Death EP Northern Spy Records If you expect some cheerful music on a release that is titled Death, you just might stay away from the new 5-song EP by Brooklyn’s Alex Toth, who goes around just by his slightly modified last name, Tōth. [...]
FRED WICKHAM CARAVAN TOWN WITHOUT SOUL BLACK SITE RECORDS If you think it is an easy thing to combine the intricate elements of The Band with Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, then you haven’t heard that many roots/country/Americana [...]
Ships In The Night Latent Powers Cleopatra Records Are the current times perfectly suited for some synth-based darkwave that skids along between ambient lullabies and nightmares that stick somewhere in your mind? If your answer to that question [...]
Abby Huston AH HA Egghunt Records Richmond, VA producer/songwriter Abby Huston just came up with the AH HA, a genre-bending pop album that is a promise in itself. Huston wraps their somewhat moody lyrics into seemingly sweet and gentle melodies [...]
GLENN ECHO FIXED MEMORY INDEPENDENT Six years to come up with a debut album? You either had a hard time making your music, or you are painstakingly taking your time, taking a hard look (and listen) to every chord in your music and word in your [...]
Grant Pavol Reflections Accidental Popstar Records The psych-folk label these days has been stamped on almost anything that falls out of the ‘regular’ mellower or singer songwriter music as very defined genres. Based on his three [...]
Louise Aubrie Antonio Carrot Bone Records If you think that the cover of Louise Aubrie’s fifth album Antonio looks like the cover of Pet Shop Boys’ album Actually, you’d be perfectly right. That is exactly what Aubrey is paying [...]
Reb Fountain IRIS Flying Nun For decades now, it has become quite a common occurrence that an artist from New Zealand comes up with the musical goods. From Split Enz, across The Chills and The Clean to most currently Lorde, Aldous Harding and [...]
John Southworth Rialto Tin Angel Records For some 20 odd years or so, from his opening salvo Mars’ Pennsylvania John Southworth has so far never made anything that would be less than very good. And since his last three albums-only efforts [...]
Erin Alissa Restless Independent Finding your place among notable singer songwriters working within the Americana/country pop genre can get harder day by day, particularly when artists like Kasey Musgraves have set the standard bar so high. You [...]
Cashavelly Morrison Metamorphosis Independent Artists often have a hit and miss affairs when they name their releases. Very few hit a title that truly explains the music contained in the grooves, or stream bits, if you will. In a way, North [...]
Ducks Ltd. Modern Fiction Royal Mountain Records Ducks Ltd., or Toronto duo Tom McGreevy and Evan Lewis, seem to be connecting dots across the globe with their latest album Modern Fiction, from Toronto, to Bristol, and from England to Dunedin, [...]
Mac McCaughan The Sound Of Yourself Merge Records Knowing that Mac McCaughan has been the front man for both Superchunk and Portastatic, what kind of sound would you expect to her from his latest solo effort, The Sound of Yourself? Well, if you [...]
