Worlds collide on Clementine Valentine’s new album The Coin that Broke the Fountain Floor. Creating a sound that combines synths with guitars and layers of vocals, Clementine and Valentine Nixon construct a hybrid based on song stylings that go back…
It’s a bold move to put your catchiest song near the end of an album, where fickle listeners might well miss it. But on her new record, Caitlin Canty takes that chance. It is, indeed, a gentle and generous boldness…
Gregory Alan Isakov is one talented fellow. He writes bruising songs, sings in a weathered voice and has a knack for writing a melody that stays with you for a long time. He also has heart, a deep lying sense…
Introspection. That moment when we sit down on the sofa and are alone with our thoughts, when we delve down into the depths of our emotions, mull over memories and are reminded of our inner battles. When we decide to…
Will Oldham seems to have a million personas, with Bonnie “Prince” Billy being the one he returns to most often. More than that, he records in so many styles, with so many people, it’s sometimes hard to know what to…
Memories are funny things, and while Snows of Yesteryear clearly understand the past, they also have a grasp on the present, creating an album that blends decades, dancing on and finding drama in surprising places. This is a most audacious…
Colin MacIntyre’s ninth studio album, and seventh as Mull Historical Society, sees the Scottish islander collaborate with a range of best-selling and award-winning authors who provided the words from which he weaved the 14 tracks on show. Several took the…
Developed in the aftermath of a sudden and difficult break-up, it could be easy to peg Madeline Kenney’s new album as one littered with ‘I miss you’s’ and ‘you hurt me’s’; the all too familiar break-up pop which pervades much…
Sometimes you have to change things up, and when the pandemic struck Darlingside had to figure out a new way to work, resulting in Everything Is Alive. The old ways of recording simply wouldn’t work, and with Don Mitchell, Auyon…
Allegra Krieger keeps throwing you for a loop, and every time you think you have her figured out, you haven’t a clue, which is what makes I Keep My Feet on the Fragile Plane such a fascinating experience. You think…