by Anna Main • • Comments Off on Album | Emma Geiger – Reverse Bloom
Relationships are complex. We all know that, since we live our lives surrounded by them. And when they don’t go to plan, many of us find ourselves engaging in intense self-reflection and internal conversations about what went wrong, how we…
by Mark Buckley • • Comments Off on Album | Josienne Clarke – Parenthesis, I
Hot on the heels of last year’s Onliness, which saw Josienne Clarke recording, reworking and reclaiming a collection of her older songs, comes Parenthesis, I. Thirteen songs about finding who you are through the prism of where you came from and where…
by Mark Buckley • • Comments Off on Album | Iron & Wine – Light Verse
When Sam Beam (the man behind the moniker Iron & Wine) was asked for the reasons why he named his seventh solo studio album Light Verse, he spoke about the process of making it “felt like coming out of a tunnel…
by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Album | Six Organs of Admittance – Time is Glass
Humboldt County, California is where Six Organs of Admittance began some 26 years ago, and since 2019 it is again where Ben Chasny resides and where Time is Glass came to fruition. Pure Chasny, no one else was involved in…
by Anna Main • • Comments Off on Album | Loreena McKennitt – The Road Back Home
Home. Beginnings. Roots. Memories. These form the common thread that weaves through Loreena McKennitt’s latest musical treasure chest, The Road Back Home. In it, she invites us to look back on her earliest days on the folk scene and lend…
by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Album | Oisin Leech – Cold Sea
Magic is a funny thing. When it occurs there’s no stopping it, and Oisin Leech’s Cold Sea is a product of magic. The stars aligned. There’s really no other way to explain it. A pause in the world forced Lost…
by Tom White • • Comments Off on Album | John Bramwell – The Light Fantastic
The former I Am Kloot mainman’s second solo album is an unexpected departure from the sound which has made his name, and no less enjoyable for it. “I’ve not got much to say but I thought I’d say it anyway,” Bramwell sings…
by Mark Buckley • • Comments Off on Album | Hurray for the Riff Raff – The Past is Still Alive
In a recording studio in Durham, NC just one month shy of losing their father, Aylnda Segarra – the songwriter behind the monicker of Hurray for the Riff Raff – committed to tape the most personal album they’d made to…
by Pete Bate • • Comments Off on Album | Grandaddy – Blu Wav
Grandaddy main man Jason Lytle has always had a country heart, notwithstanding the skateboarding and DIY punk origins of his band’s taped-together indie rock. Their sixth album is the one on which Lytle gives in to pedal steel and the…
by Anna Main • • Comments Off on Album | Frontier Ruckus – On the Northline
In their first album since the acclaimed Enter the Kingdom in 2017, Michigan’s alternative folk trio Frontier Ruckus – comprised of singer-songwriter-guitarist Matthew Milia, banjo player David Jones, and multi-instrumentalist Zachary Nichols – return in full force with On the…