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 [...]
STARLING FORGIVE ME SUNDAY DRIVE RECORDS What would fall under a category classified as grungy dream pop? Something hard to pin down, for sure, but it seems to be something that a Los Angeles quartet that goes under the name of Starling tries to [...]
VARIOUS ARTISTS A TRIBUTE TO THE KING OF ZYDECO VALCOUR RECORDS In most cases, compilations, particularly tribute albums, tend to be a patchy affair, no matter how many big (and great) artists are featured there. When creating a tribute album, [...]
PAN AMERICAN & KRAMER INTERIOR OF AN EDIFICE UNDER THE SEA SHIMMY-DISC Both Pan American (aka Mark Nelson) and Kramer have been known not only for their extensive solo work, but also as collaborators with a wide array of other artists [...]
AVI C. ENGEL FIVE FIGMENTS INDEPENDENT Toronto’s Avi C. Engel is surely one of the more productive singer-songwriters around at the moment, with a slew of releases available on their Bandcamp site, this 5-song thingy they called Five [...]
MEGGIE LENNON DESIRE DAYS MOTHLAND Quite a few artists make lofty claims when they speak out to promote their new musical venture. And very often at that, their claims don’t exactly match what you can hear on that said effort. Luckily for [...]
S.G. GOODMAN PLANTING BY THE SIGNS SLOUGH WATER RECORDS/THIRTY TIGERS After her debut album Teeth Marks from 2022, winning ‘a few’ awards, and some serious and long-running set of concerts, Kentucky’s brilliant Americana artist [...]
THE BONES OF J.R. JONES RADIO WAVES TONE TREE MUSIC Those following Spill Magazine a bit more closely will surely be aware that behind The Bones of J.R. Jones moniker is New York-based artist Jonathon Linaberry, a man behind some subtle set of [...]
XOL MEISSNER EXCESS OF LOSS INDEPENDENT If you stick only to the face value of some information, it just might take you to a wrong track, and there is quite a bit of that here. First of all, Xol Meissner is an alias for a Swiss-born, NYC-based [...]
KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD PHANTOM ISLAND P(DOOM) RECORDS So, where have the Australian mavericks gone so far in their explorations? From all things heavy to the outskirts of microtonal and spiritual jazz, while cramming as many albums [...]
YAWN WISH I COULD’VE KILLBEAT MUSIC If you think that crafting close to perfect pop music is easy, then you’ve got things all wrong. Pop has a set of formulas you have to respect, and being inventive and doing it right within those [...]
