“Karen” is the opening track of “Whisper Sugar”, the second album of Leroy Lytel, whose first album was lauded by Hearth Music as “one of the best indie-folk albums of 2011”. Leroy Lytel is a singer song writer based in Upstate New York. http://www.leroylytel.com/
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[streaming] Secret Meadow – Same Old Fear
Title track from the debut release from Secret Meadow, a new band from Jakarta, Indonesia, and it’s a good case of being able to judge a book by its cover. Much like the sleeve, the songs contained within are simple and catchy, but are also shrouded in a haze (of ambient synths). Imagine the sound…
[streaming] Ned Roberts – Drifting Down
“Drifting Down” is the opening track from “Outside My Mind”, the new album by Ned Roberts, out March 24th via Aveline Records. Ned Roberts is an acoustic singer-songwriter based in London. Ned first started gigging when living up in York, playing old folk covers and the odd Dylan tune. Not long after writing his first…
[streaming] Ian William Craig – Contain
Taken from the forthcoming album-length EP, “Slow Vessels”, released May 5th on 130701 / FatCat Records. Ian William Craig is a Canadian musician known for using broken tape machines. He is based in Vancouver. Craig was classically trained in vocal performance and uses modified tape reels to distort his recorded voice. Music magazine Rolling Stone…
[streaming] Raoul Vignal – Hazy Days
“Hazy Days” is the first single taken from Raoul Vignal’s upcoming “The Silver Veil”. From 2010 to this day, 26-year-old Raoul Vignal has been playing authentic, modern folk music. Forming the essence of his compositions, soothing vocals and delicate fingerpicking played on alternate tunings are Vignal’s trademark. His music has often been described by audience…
[streaming] My North Eye – How Many?
Taken from “My North Eye II”, out now via Reverb Worship. My North Eye is the one-man band by Yann Lafosse (ex Dirge). My North Eye plays intimate and minimal rock songs on guitar and harmonium, that can make think to Silver Mount Zion never lifting, or a male Nico or even La Monte Young with a melodic…
[streaming] Brenda Xu – Lovely Storm
“Lovely Storm” is the first single off of the album “Overflow” by Brenda Xu, out on March 24th. Ambient/folk artist, Brenda Xu (pronounced “shoo”) has been building a steady following since her arrival on the Seattle music scene a few years ago. The momentum she created with the release of her last album “For The…
[streaming] Sunnanaeng – Nyar
A song about things lost and things found. Inspired by folkhemmet, cute cats turned inside out, Instagram filters, Donald Trump’s knee caps, Taylor Deupree, Stars of the Lid and the lid of the stars, plus other obscure acts that feels good name dropping, e.g. Aloof Proof. Sunnanaeng is a new duo project by Fredrik Franzén…
[streaming] Christine Leakey – Walks Like An Angel (feat. Linda Perhacs)
Taken from Christine Leakey second solo record, “Wanderlust Wishing Well”, due out March 3rd. Once upon a music time, a 10 month old baby named Christine began to whistle. Then at 3, she sang made up songs to her dog. She took piano from a belching nun at 9 and taught herself guitar at 22….
[streaming] French For Rabbits – One & Only
The first single from French for Rabbits new album “The Weight of Melted Snow”. Due out in New Zealand on 10th March 2017. In the space between waking and sleeping we have our most vivid dreams – vaguely strung together threads of memories, inner weirdness, our fears and hopes. It is in this space where…
[streaming] Moon Moon Moon – Hazelverse
Moon Moon Moon is a universe created by Mark Lohmann, a 23-year-old musician from Heerhugowaard, The Netherlands. His illustrations, music and games are all part of his personal, dark fairytale. He fills his days working on this Gesamtkunstwerk from his bedroom studio. In 2014, Mark recorded his debut album “I Want! I Want!” at home,…
[streaming] The Workhouse – A Moment Of Clarity
“A Moment Of Clarity” is the first track out of “Now I Am On Fire”, the fourth album from The Workhouse and their second release on German record label Oscarson, out March 4th 2017. Combining influences from early Factory records, The Chameleons and Interpol together with re-formed nineties shoegazers Ride and Slowdive, the band mix…
[streaming] Emma Gatrill – Skin
Taken from the album “Cocoon”, out March 17th. Emma Gatrill is a multi-instrumentalist based in Brighton, UK. Her debut, 2012’s “Chapter I“, was a poignant collection of songs based around her then-latest acquisition – the harp. Subtly accompanied by various members of Brighton’s Willkommen Collective, her intricate harp playing coupled with a unique vocal fragility…
[streaming] Rosie Carney – Awake Me
Rosie Carney is a 19 year old singer songwriter from Hampshire, UK now living in Donegal, Ireland. She gathers inspiration from the beautfully rugged landscape that surrounds her, along with her ability to disect and make others stories into beautifully heartfelt songs. “I find something quite wonderful about being vulnerable. I think it’s such an…
[streaming] Kim Janssen – Gouldians
Kim Janssen releases new single “Gouldians” Kim Janssen was born in The Netherlands but raised in Bangkok, Phnom Penh and Kathmandu. After three years of radio silence Kim Janssen finally returned via UK-blog The Line Of Best Fit last year with “Bottle Rockets“; a piano-ballad which now has over 300.000 Spotify plays. The live video…
[streaming] Timid, The Brave – Alice
“Alice” is the first song from Timid, The Brave new record “Firesale”, out Feb 24th via Other Songs Music Co. Quote from Timid, The Brave about the song: I wrote “Alice” several years ago after my Grandmother passed away. After her funeral, there was this really bizarre moment in my Grandparent’s apartment when my Grandfather called us…
[streaming] Human Colonies – Sirio
“Sirio” is the opening track of “Big Domino Vortex”, the 6-tracks debut EP of Human Colonies, out on 23rd January 2016 via MiaCameretta Records & Lady Sometimes Records. It’s a thrilling 90s noisepop featuring distorted sonic guitars, mellow pop melodies and a real shoegaze swooning touch! Human Colonies are a “blurred dreamy cloudy fuzzy something” trio…
[streaming] Karima Walker – St. Ignacio
“St. Ignacio” is taken from “Hands in Our Names”, the first full length album from Tucson, AZ experimental musician Karima Walker, out March 24, 2017. “Hands in Our Names” is a hypnotizing patchwork of drone, folk, psychedelia, field recordings and tape loops. Equal parts gorgeous and abrasive, comforting and confounding, “Hands in Our Names” builds abstract…
[streaming] Her Harbour – Chime And Knell
Her Harbour is the moniker of Canadian singer songwriter Gabrielle Giguere. “Chime and Knell” is taken from her new LP “Go Gently Into The Night”, which will be released on February 3rd via E-Tron Records. Gabrielle’s thoughts on how the song is filled with the spectre of death, surrounded by the passing winter: “Chime and Knell”…
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