by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | Patrick Grant – FIELDS AMAZE and other sTRANGE music
As lengthy a title as it may be, Patrick Grant’s FIELDS AMAZE and other sTRANGE music lives up to it in a multifarious blend of ways. First and foremost, the nine tracks of which the album is comprised are, indeed, strange,…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Premiere | Micah P. Hinson – The Sleep of the Damned
There is an immediacy to these times, times when the sense of order so long known feels under threat. It’s an immediacy felt by Micah P. Hinson, who poured out his feelings when he recorded his new album When I…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Video Premiere | Copper Viper – ‘Hung Up Alone’
Do not let Copper Viper’s minimalist presentation fool you. As folk duos do, their dynamics may be clean and precise, but they are most certainly not without their intricacies. Just as the Milk Carton Kids would go on to wow…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Video Premiere | Anne Marie Almedal – You Keep Me At Arm’s Length
Norwegian songwriter Anne Marie Almedal is set to release her fourth solo album, and first in more than five years, next month with Lightshadow due out on October 26th. The new record brings a fresh new sound for this beguiling…
by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Album | Amy Helm – This Too Shall Light
Sometimes the only way to avoid a struggle is to allow someone else to take the wheel. Amy Helm needed help in order to be set free when it came to recording her latest LP. Producing her first album herself…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | The Suborbitals – Hey Oblivion
At the end of everything, there stands oblivion. We come into this life aware that it will one day end—that, like all matter that has come before and after us, we too will one day leave the way we came…
by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Album | Villagers – The Art of Pretending To Swim
Conor O’Brien seems to be living in two worlds. The first is the folky world of his first release in 2010 Becoming A Jackal, the second a more danceable iteration from this years release, The Art of Pretending To Swim.…
by Lorenzo Righetto • • Comments Off on Album | Mirah – Understanding
If someone told you Understanding is the first record by a new artist, discovered by Sub Pop on Youtube just a few months ago, you would probably believe it without so much as a blink. Mirah’s sixth album is imbued…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Single | Scott Chasolen – Limbo
Perhaps best known for his brilliant work behind the keys, Scott Chasolen is letting redolent guitar tones and a hearty voice take the reins on his newest single, ‘Limbo’. Left-of-center triads develop an almost ominous tone straightaway, paving the path…
by Tan the Man • • Comments Off on Album | Mountain Man – Magic Ship
Almost ten years ago, Alexandra Sauser-Monnig, Amelia Meath, and Molly Sarlé spontaneously began a musical partnership while attending Bennington College in Vermont, which resulted in establishing the folk trio Mountain Man, releasing a full-length debut album Made the Harbor, and…