Tunng albums transcend time. They don’t fit in a pattern of what’s popular at any particular moment. They use elements that seem to be ridiculously out of place, forming an off kilter whole residing in a world of its own.…
Magic occurs when people set aside preconceived notions and open their hearts and minds to a world that operates in ways we can’t understand. Throughout her career Mary Chapin Carpenter has been a solo artist. Yet during the pandemic she…
Born into a creative household, Scottish singer/songwriter Rhona Macfarlane was exposed to folk music from an early age and received classical training at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Co-produced with Matt Ingram, her wonderfully honest debut album As The Chaos…
After 2021’s rightfully and universally acclaimed album Ignorance, Tamara Lindeman found herself interviewed by the likes The New Yorker and Pitchfork as an unlikely spokesperson on the subject of climate grief. As the plaudits rained down though, little was known of how…
To Warm The Winter Hearth, the latest polyphonic masterpiece by New England vocal quartet Windborne, rolls in as the nights grow ever longer. The beautiful four-part harmonies offered by Lauren Breunig, Jeremy Carter-Gordon, Lynn Rowan and Will Rowan are the star…
Lucinda Williams hasn’t always walked the straightest road. Since 2020 she’s survived a tornado, the pandemic and a stroke that has to date kept her from playing the guitar. She’s also released two albums of her own work, and six…
If we were drawing up a list of the artists we’d most like to hear make a seasonal record, the Unthanks would be somewhere near the top. Their rich instrumentation, careful arrangements, and beautiful harmonies are just the warming sound…
Sometimes the name of a band says it all. Exuding a childlike sense of joy and wonder, the innocence mission evoke memories and marvel on Midwinter Swimmers. Memories of days long past, and marvel that we live in a world…
Aisha Badru is an alchemist. She distills human experience with all its chaos and craziness into simple human truths as she paves a pathway to introspection. On The Sun Still Rises, only her second full-length album, she looks upon her…
The “great cremation ground” of Father John Misty’s Mahashmashana provides Josh Tillman with a way to examine the wonderfully weird life he has lived over the past ten years. The ultimate observer, he casts a jaundiced eye at the world…