ALEXEI SHISHKIN GOOD TIMES RUE DEFENSE Artists dabbling with all the variants of lo-fi/bedroom pop and all closely connected musical forms, seem to be having a sort of a hard time these days for no apparent reason, as quite a few of them are [...]
GWENIFER RAYMOND LAST NIGHT I HEARD THE DOG STAR BARK WE ARE BUSY BODIES Making an instrumental album is a tough prospect to start with, when it is a solo instrument affair even harder, and you can triple that if that instrument is an acoustic [...]
WHITEHALL NATIONAL FINALS RODEO ENCI RECORDS Big record companies seem to be always giving up on something, and these days it might be that melodic, guitar-driven pop/rock. People over at ENCI Records don’t seem to think that is a good [...]
KATY PINKE & WILL GRAEFE PATTERNS GLAMOUR GOWNS So many artists, those who are well-known and those who are not so well-known, are taking stock and reviewing what they have done so far, as well as where their inspiration comes from, and they [...]
MARGO PRICE HARD HEADED WOMAN LOMA VISTA RECORDINGS Margo Price has always been an artist whose audience didn’t care much what genre her music fell into, and yes, it more often than not falls within that often too strictly defined one that [...]
SUNYEARS THE SONG FORLORN VILLA/YEP ROC Peter Morén of Peter, Bjorn and John has been a busy guy recently. After nine albums with the band, and during the pandemic, Morén decided to do some solo work, which brought along SunYears, his solo [...]
BILLIANNE MODES OF TRANSPORTATION INDEPENDENT It is a crowded house over in the singer-songwriter habitat. So many of them these days have to go on their own to present their music. And if you are just 22 years old and come from Milton, ON, [...]
GEORGIA HARMER EYE OF THE STORM ARTS & CRAFTS Georgia Harmer has one of those voices that simply wins you over, even if the song she sings doesn’t amount to much. Yet, when the songs she sings do amount to quite a bit, the effect is [...]
HILLARY REYNOLDS CHANGING SEASONS INDEPENDENT Quite a few singer-songwriters come up with their music and lyrics in the spur of the moment, as spontaneous as it can get. Others, like L.A.’s Hillary Reynolds here, take a more meticulous [...]
JAKE WINSTROM RAZZMATAZZ! INDEPENDENT Power pop was never as big with music critics as some other genres or sub-genres, maybe because of that pop element within the term. Very often they labeled it as something that hasn’t changed that [...]
IN THE PINES SUNBEAM DREAM INDEPENDENT Ok, so the name of your band associates with something sounding a bit Americana, you have a home studio in Cincinnati, Ohio, and at the same time you run a synthesizer repair shop in Dayton Kentucky, so how [...]
JOSH HALPER SCHLEMIEL GLAMOUR GOWNS RECORDS Seasoned session men do not come often with their solo efforts and when they do, these efforts turn out to be rare occasions that often pass by the listeners who barely notice them. Now, guitarist Josh [...]
LOW WATER BRIDGE BAND HONKY TONK PROCESS INDEPENDENT Virginia sextet Low Water Bridge Band, already made an impression here at Spill Magazine with their 2023 album Back To The Valley. The band is now back with their latest offering, Honky Tonk [...]
FOLK BITCH TRIO NOW WOULD BE A GOOD TIME JAGJAGUWAR Some might raise their eyebrows to the name of this Australian trio, most others wouldn’t care less, but what nobody will question after listening to their debut album Now Would Be A Good [...]
FORTUNATO DURUTTI MARINETTI BITTER SWEET, SWEET BITTER QUINDI RECORDS Fortunato Durutti Marinetti, has been trekking between Turin, IT, and Toronto for a few years now, recording albums that fans of a wide range of artists, from Tindersticks to [...]
JULIAN CUBILLOS JULIAN CUBILLOS RUINATION RECORDS Who releases a debut album in the midst of a summer heat (at least that is the usual July weather in NYC) when most big, small or non-existent record labels have a pause in their release [...]
HEAVENLY OPERATION HEAVENLY SKEP WAX RECORDS When this, the fourth and final album by Heavenly was released back in 1996, it practically had no shelf-life of its own, as its release was overshadowed by the sudden death of drummer Mathew [...]
QUADECA VANISHER, HORIZON SCRAPER X8 MUSIC When you are listed as a producer, singer, rapper, and visual artist, then at some point, you are bound to build a concept, and that is certainly what we have with Quadeca, an artist in the true sense [...]
ALAINA STACEY DUSK INDEPENDENT Is it pop or is it Americana? Kacey Musgraves and a few other artists resolved that dilemma a while ago, by proving that it could be either or both and that makes no difference, as long as the songwriting and [...]
MF TOMLINSON DIE TO WAKE UP FROM A DREAM PRAH RECORDINGS Back in 2023 when Tomlinson released his then album We Are Still Wild Horses, his grasp of psych and psych folk probably came as a surprise from this London-based Australian. This time, [...]
MIKE POLIZZE AROUND SOUND PARADISE OF BACHELORS The name of Philadelphia’s Mike Polizze might be a name familiar to those following all things modern psych, as he is a member of psych purveyors Purling Hiss and Birds of Maya, now coming up [...]
EMMA HARNER TAKING MY SIDE INDEPENDENT How easy is it for a prospective singer songwriter these days to make it, particularly if they are just releasing their debut offering? Listeners could only guess all that is involved in such a process, and [...]
LA NOUVELLE MUSIQUE LA NOUVELLE MUSIQUE FRUITS DE MER RECORDS There are a number of ways you can approach your take on folk music, and very often the artists stick to the tried and true, sticking to the roots and traditional take on folk. Yet, [...]
LIGHTHEADED THINKING, DREAMING, SCHEMING! SLUMBERLAND RECORDS There’s this tradition running in modern pop rock all the way from sixties sunshine pop through Sarah Records artist to more modern times with Belle and Sebastian and Camera [...]
