by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Album | Adam’s House Cat – Town Burned Down
It seems like most things the Drive-By Truckers do have a story, and usually a damn good one. Town Burned Down, the only album recorded by Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley’s pre-DBT band Adam’s House Cat, is no exception. Originally…
by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Album | The Jellyman’s Daughter – Dead Reckoning
More than just a name for their second long player, Emily Kelly and Graham Coe of The Jellyman’s Daughter know Dead Reckoning is a way of calculating one’s current position. While not the most accurate approach, it gets the job…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Video Premiere | Jessi Williams & Coyote – Bloodhound
Directed by Ryan Ross, Jessi Williams & Coyote go out for a run in the music video for their latest single, ‘Bloodhound’. The frantic pace of which the lead character’s feet propel him forward are indicative of the song’s thematic…
by For Folk's Sake • • Comments Off on Album | Kitty Macfarlane – Namer of Clouds
On her debut album Somerset singer-songwriter Kitty Macfarlane presents an occasionally dazzling set of songs that span traditional and contemporary folk, and includes a few numbers that might well deserve a spot among the English folk canon themselves. The press…
by Lorenzo Righetto • • Comments Off on Album | Broeder Dieleman – Komma
Easy to categorize as the “Dutch Bonnie Prince Billy”, Tonnie aka ‘Broeder’ Dieleman has ventured into a career of his own, made of strong asceticism and unrelenting musical research. These are ingredients that place him among a restricted circle of…
by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Album | Dawn Landes – Meet Me At The River
The career of Dawn Landes hasn’t run in a straight line. She has always gone where the spirit moved her, never making the safe choice. That would explain why she released Covers, an EP of tunes by Bruce Springsteen, Tom…
by Pete Bate • • Comments Off on Album | Low – Double Negative
If Low’s last album, 2015’s acclaimed Ones and Sixes, saw them slip off their slowcore shackles, Double Negative feels like a near-detonation of all that’s gone before. As the band moved into their third decade, a sense of consolidation surrounded…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | The Good Morning Nags – No Damn Good EP
The Good Morning Nags’ new EP, No Damn Good, just goes to show that ‘short’ often does mean ‘sweet’. At the very least, it sure does in this instance. The two songs that decorate its quaint halls assure listeners of that.…
by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Album | Lizzie Weber – You
At the end of a very painful breakup, Lizzie Weber harnessed her emotions in a set of songs that were too painful to perform. Now, some four years later, the scars have lost much of their sting. The results found…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | C-Wired – Omega
When Chuck Whyard hits the stage, he becomes the electrifying Americana artist, C-Wired. A free-wheeling mystic capable of producing powerful, tenacious grooves, he and his band develop a multifarious collection of songs for their debut EP, Omega. Washed with lush production…