[streaming] Nick Ellis – Clock Watching

Taken from the L.P. “Adult Fiction”, released 18th November 2017 on Mellowtone Records. Nick Ellis is a Liverpool based singer/songwriter and guitarist performing a style of streetscape narrative-noir blended with a classic British acoustic approach. Song and Melody. Some people call it folk, some just call it good old fashioned song craft. Using a blend…

[streaming] Keto – Blackened Pool

“Blackened Pool” is taken from the new Keto Ep, out October 13th on Graze Records. Keto is Leah Sanderson, a songwriter from Nottingham who bring her own style of lo-fi folk, likened to Cat Power and Elliot Smith, with audience members describing it ashypnotic. The hypnotic, lovelorn orchestration of songwriter Leah Sanderson offers a fresh…

[streaming] Forêt Endormie – L’angoisse

Forêt Endormie is the genre-melding chamber ensemble led by guitarist and composer Jordan Guerette, known widely for his work with American black metal luminaries Falls of Rauros. Formed in 2016 in the “Forest City” of Portland, Maine, Forêt Endormie draws as much from the forms and fantasies of 20th century French composers Erik Satie and…

[streaming] Immigrant – Two Years

Taken from “Wounded Healer”, out October 28th via Oscarson label. Immigrant’s self-titled debut album was released in 2002 on Fence Records. Two further Fence albums, Mother Tongue and A Nowhere Place appeared in 2003 and 2004 respectively. Son Of Immigrant, part of Fence Records’ Picket Fence series, originally appeared in 2004, and was later expanded…

[streaming] Shannon Lay – Recording 15

Taken from “Living Water”, debut release on Kevin Morby’s new imprint with Woodsist Records. Shannon Lay’s “Living Water” is an instant classic. Recorded by Emmet Kelly (Cairo Gang, Bonnie Prince Billy, Ty Segall) in his Los Angeles home studio, this is an album where you can hear the room reacting to the music taking shape…

[streaming] Lean Year – Watch Me

Taken from the self-titled debut by Lean Year. Available October 20th, 2017 on Western Vinyl. Lean Year is the debut, self-titled record by Richmond, Virginia based singer Emilie Rex and filmmaker/musician Rick Alverson. What for Rex was a departure from the structured life of academia toward the uncertain contours of a creative field, for Alverson…

[streaming] Flower Face – Honey And Milk

New digital single by Flower Face. Flower Face is the solo music project of 19 year old Canadian, Ruby Mckinnon. For years she has been writing and recording songs in her bedroom, and has released 3 LPs and 1 EP of original material. Her latest release “Fever Dreams” is the first to feature some outside…

[streaming] The Saxophones – Aloha

Alexi Erenkov’s duo, The Saxophones, create beautiful and personal music. Accompanied by his wife, Alison Alderdice, on percussion and samplers, they blend the darkness and melancholy of 1950s balladry with minimalistic woodwind arrangements, creating a hypnotic sound that hearkens to the past while affirming its place in the present. https://www.facebook.com/thesaxophones/

[streaming] Lost Bear – Rap Song

“Donkey Shot” is the latest chapter of the musical adventure novel called Lost Bear. Back in the old days (2008-2013) the band made 90s indierock, for which they received positive reviews. Despite successful gigs at home and abroad, they never escaped the status of promising band. Lost Bear had to make a choice: to quit,…

[streaming] Warm Morning Brothers – Wandering Mind

Taken from “(don’t) ASKMETODANCE #2″, out on September 15 on Lost Without Your Love Records, 7” only. Two brothers, one guitar, one ukulele, a million dreams. Warm Morning Brothers‘ music is a shelter from the chaos of a noisy world. If their name conjures images of a lazy warm summer day, you’ll know they hit…

[streaming] Luca Longobardi – Autumna

Track taken from “Autumn”, the concluding album in Bigo and Twigetti’s seasonal compilation series which started in 2014, out September 25th. Artists were asked to create or submit a track which, for them, had a connection to Autumn. Luca Longobardi is a pianist and composer based in Rome – Italy. https://luca-longobardi.com/

[streaming] Tiny Leaves – You’ll Be Okay (Equador Rework)

Equador have been asked to rework Tiny Leaves‘ “You’ll Be Okay”, which was originally released by Pegdoll for Piano Day 2017. Equador are Henry Binns (Zero 7) and Bo Bruce who with their recent album “Bones of Man” tasted success with a no 1 on the iTunes UK electronic chart as well as recent appearances…

[streaming] Tucker Theodore – Solitaire Til Dawn (ft. Sister Grotto)

Taken from “Lady Hope”, the latest cassette album by Tucker Theodore, out via Antiquated Future Records. With its combination of droning noise and outsider folk, wrapped up with snaking tendrils of dense and snarling rock, Lady Hope is quite unlike any other album you’ll hear this year. It’s an hour long beast that’s unapologetically complex…

[streaming] Anna Tivel – Illinois

“Illinois” is the opening track of “Small Believer”, the fourth album by Portland based songwriter Anna Tivel, out September 29th. Anna Tivel’s wide-eyed celestial folk songs belong in a similar ballpark with Anais Mitchell, Gregory Alan Isakov and Laura Veirs, where gentle picking plucks among occasionally unconventional sounds and a gorgeous voice tells stories of life in a world of natural wonders….

[streaming] Kathleen Mary Lee – The Dreamer

New song from Kathleen Mary Lee, in anticipation of her second upcoming EP. Kathleen Mary Lee is an alternative folk artist from Melbourne, Australia. Her 2016 debut EP “Nice Kind of Pain” received attention and airplay on some of Australia’s top radio stations. Lee is also the songwriter and front woman for Melbourne indie band,…