Folk duo Lowland Hum consists of travelling couple, Lauren and Daniel Goans. Their fourth full-length album Glyphonic transports listeners to what feels like a beautiful parallel universe. The fragility of being full-time musicians can be hard, but the couple converted…
Through a live performance of ‘Elevator’, singer-songwriter Alex Bloom shifts into the folk world sideways. His suave slip into offbeat melodies and vocal tricks make for a captivating performance more along the line of experimental riffs that more inhabit the…
When setting down to develop their new album, In the Afterglow, Louisville’s Bridge 19 had tasked themselves with something seemingly impossible. Yet, frontwomen Audrey Cecil and Amanda Lucas effortlessly twist and weave between the realms of serious lyricism and charming…
From the beginning, Javier Velez was a musical prodigy capable of perfect pitch. He’d first showcased his extraordinary, innate talents to his parents before he could even speak while humming along to his favorite cartoon theme songs, and they knew…
It’s a big, strange house (a convent, in fact), the kind you might hear ghost stories about. And it’s a long way from home, in Richelieu, France, where the Leisure Society have gone to record, to get away from it…
Set up by last year’s solo album by Adrianne Lenker, from where U.F.O.F. takes a couple of tracks, the new Big Thief album is “state-of-the-art” contemporary Americana. The spare experience of abysskiss, a fully accomplished record, is transferred to the…