“The Throat” is the first single off “Please Leave Quietly”, the first album by Olin Janusz, out on vinyl via Stellar Frequencies, Araki Records and Candlepin Records, on April 5th, 2023. As dense thematically as it is sonically, the first half acts as a ballad to mental illness at quarter speed, pedal steel winding through…
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[video of the week] Kitba – My Words Don’t Work
Brooklyn-based harpist and songwriter Rebecca Kitba Bryson El-Saleh, who has appeared on recordings from Cassandra Jenkins and JG Thirlwell, among others, has announced their self-titled debut album as Kitba, due out July 21 via Ruination Record Co (pre-order). They made it with co-producer Zubin Hensler, drummer Jason Burger, upright bassist Carmen Q. Rothwell, guitarist and bassist Ryan Weiner, and…
[video of the week] Special Friend – Selkie
New album “Wait Until The Flames Come Rushing In” will follow on 30th June (vinyl LP, CD, digital). The single and album are co-released by Skep Wax Records and French labels Howlin’ Banana Records and Hidden Bay Records. Paris-based duo Special Friend are American Erica Ashleson and French Guillaume Siracusa. They have a sound that’s…
[video of the week] Josh Thorpe – The World
Taken from “Honey”, out now via Ur Audio Visual. The musical materials of Honey are simple: guitars that lean sometimes to the smooth, sometimes to the skronky, a six-string electric bass that often doubles as a guitar, drums that lay down deep and sweet grooves, a few bits of ‘80s toy keyboards, and very unusual trombone part…
[video of the week] Vargkvint – Stillhetens hav II
“Stillhetens hav II” is the first single ahead of “Månens Hav”, a new album by Sweden’s Vargkvint, the solo project by multi-artist Sofia Nystrand. The 9-track album is out on June 2, and is recorded and co-produced by Grammy Award-winning engineer Antonio Pulli at Leiter’s studio in Berlin’s celebrated Funkhaus complex. https://www.facebook.com/vargkvint/
[video of the week] The Clientele – Blue Over Blue
Taken from “I Am Not There Anymore”, out July 28 on Merge Records. The Clientele’s “I Am Not There Anymore” regularly evokes what singer-guitarist Alasdair MacLean calls “the feeling of not being real.” Recording for the album began in 2019 and continued piecemeal until 2022—in part because of the pandemic, but also because the band…
[video of the week] Selah Broderick – I Am
Taken from the album “Moon in the Monastery”, out June 9, 2023 on Pegdoll Records. Having grown up in a strict Catholic setting, the alternative movements of the late 60’s and 70’s could not come soon enough for Selah, who’s love for art and music eventually sent her traveling around the country, running from a…
[video of the week] Maxine Funke – Call On You
Taken from the album “River Said”, out 28th April 2023 via Disciples. The new album by Maxine Funke divides into two halves – the first side a perfect suite of the kind of beautifully constructed songs that the New Zealand based artist has become known for, acutely observed vignettes framing her voice with a minimal backing of…
[video of the week] Silver Moth – The Eternal
Taken from the album “Black Bay” by Silver Moth, released 21st April 2023 via Bella Union. A leap of faith reaps extraordinary rewards on Black Bay, an album of depth, atmosphere and daring from the collective known as Silver Moth. Recorded under unusual circumstances, Black Bay is the sound of seven storied musicians yielding to…
[video of the week] Lightning Dust – Run
Taken from the album “Nostalgia Killer”, available June 9, 2023 on Western Vinyl. In 2019, Lightning Dust broke up. Not the band, but Amber Webber and Joshua Wells–the couple at the core of it–ended their longtime relationship. In the wake of the split, the two musicians realized that Lightning Dust was still important to them…
[video of the week] Alasdair Roberts – The Bonny Moorhen
Taken from the album “Grief in the Kitchen and Mirth in the Hall,” available from Drag City on March 31, 2023. Critically-acclaimed, criminally-overachieving Glasgow-based singer and guitarist Alasdair Roberts is known as a superlative original songwriter as well as an interpreter of traditional songs from Scotland and beyond. For the past twenty years, his recordings…
[video of the week] Amy May Ellis – Wild Geese
Taken from the album Over Ling And Bell, released on Lost Map Records on 12th May 2023. Raised in a remote dale in the middle of the Yorkshire uplands, Amy’s warm and delicate folk-leaning DIY songs are steeped in the culture, scenery, folklore and wildlife of the countryside that surrounded and shaped her as a…
[video of the week] Cooper Wolken – So Down
After being a member of bands such as Kidi Band and Bird Concerns, Wolken is embarking on a new project – his own! His debut record “Chapters” is out June 9, 2023 via Earth Libraries. “So Down” is the first single out of the album. https://cooperwolken.bandcamp.com/
[video of the week] Cindy – A Trumpet On The Hillside
Taken from the album, “Why Not Now?”, out 14th April via Mt. St. Mtn. /Tough Love. This last line of the title track from Cindy’s fourth LP “Why Not Now?” works as a slogan for Karina Gill’s evolving musical vision. Her music is simple out of necessity and introverted in delivery, but the songs contain…
[video of the week] Death And Vanilla – Out For Magic
From Death And Vanilla’s new album “Flicker”, out March 17th 2023 via Fire Records. Death and Vanilla return with ‘Flicker’, presenting their unique pop music that defies categorisation. Housed in a beautifully austere post-ironic de-constructed sleeve; ‘Flicker’ is a modern reflection on these difficult times. World crises notwithstanding, they return reborn, re-arranged and revitalised after…
[video of the week] appleseeds! – Anything Goes
Taken from “æblefrø”, out now via Too Good To Be True. Over the years, the Danish duo, Ditte and Kasper have played in various bands, most recently Tampopo. With appleseeds!, they strive to capture the whim of a fleeting moment or maybe an inexplicable feeling. In their case, it usually ends up being a short…
[video of the week] Perlee – Lampshade
Taken from the forthcoming debut album “Speaking From Other Rooms”, out April 21st on Greenbay Records / Backseat. On early Perlee demos you can hear the sound of crows roosting for the night. Well, a few years back Saramai Leech and Cormac O’Keeffe were looking for a place to set up shop. They settled on…
[video of the week] Les Dunes – Mellow Skies
“Mellow Skies” is the first single from the s/t debut album from the Norwegian band Les Dunes which will be released on Apollon Records and Kapitän Platte 24th of March 2023. Consisting of members from bands like The Low Frequency in Stereo, Undergrunnen, Lumen Drones, Helldorado and Action & Tension & Space. The band consists…
[video of the week] Best Fern – On and On
“On And On” is the second single from the forthcoming ambient dream pop album “Earth Then Air” by Best Fern, aka Montreal’s Nick Schofield and NYC’s Alexia Avina. Earth Then Air will be available digitally & on both black and clear 12″ vinyl starting 3 February 2023 from Youngbloods & Backward Music. The music captured…
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