Taken from Meg Duffy’s Hand Habits debut LP out Feb 10, 2017 on Woodsist Records. “Meg Duffy, aka Hand Habits, is a singer, songwriter and guitarist from Upstate New York. She has been putting her time in on the road and in the studio over the past two years with pacific northwest band Mega Bog,…
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[streaming] Wharfer – Breeze (Since I Was Born)
“Breeze (Since I Was Born)” is the opening track of the third album by Kyle Wall, who performs under the name Wharfer. For his album “Scenes of the Tourist”, out January 13, Brooklyn-based Wall channeled the diverse range of interests his musical roommates to write an orchestral collection of songs that strays far from his…
[streaming] Ando – Hello, Nice To Meet You
“Hello, Nice To Meet You” is the opening track of “Found Sounds”, a digital Ep by Ando, the mostly instrumental new projct by Andy Berkhout. Andy Berkhout is a St. Louis musician mostly known for his releases as Trotting Bear. While Trotting Bear has recently become a proper band, Berkhout keeps on in his solo…
[streaming] Visionary Hours – Empty Hills Just After Rain
“Empty Hills Just After Rain” is a new track by Visionary Hours, taken from the compilation “Anticipation Of An Uncertain Future”, that features tracks from upcoming albums from Preserved Sound label. Get the whole compilation for free here. Combining the sound of strings, guitar, voice, flute and clarinet, Visionary Hours creates slowly evolving modern-classical pieces,…
[streaming] Julien Baker – Funeral Pyre
Singer/songwriter Julien Baker announced that she’d signed to storied indie-rock label Matador Records by releasing a new single, “Funeral Pyre”. “Funeral Pyre” will be out on Matador, as part of a 7″ inch with “Distant Solar System”, an outtake from Baker’s 2015 debut album “Sprained Ankle“, that will be re-released via Matador on March 17….
[streaming] Mary Lattimore – Borrego Springs (ft. Jefre Cantu-Ledesma)
Mary Lattimore and Jefre Cantu-Ledesma crossed paths in the high desert plains of Marfa, Texas and reunited to jam + record in New York City shortly thereafter. “Borrego Springs” is six minutes of beautifully balanced improvisations from this day spent together and completes Returned To Earth. Lattimore’s painterly flourishes are grounded by Ledesma’s expressive interplay…
[streaming] Gem Club – Spirit And Decline
New track by Gem Club. Gem Club was formed by Christopher Barnes, with cellist Kristen Drymala, at the end of 2009. Their first EP, Acid and Everything, was recorded in Barnes’ Somerville, MA home and self-released on June 2010. The EP was written as part of the RPM Challenge, a challenge for musicians to write…
[streaming] Grouper – I’m Clean Now
I’m “Clean Now” is the b-side of “Paradise Valley” 7″, out December 21st on Grouper’s own Yellow Electric. Grouper is the solo project of musician and artist Liz Harris. After releasing material independently beginning in 2005, Harris released the critically acclaimed “Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill” (2008), followed by four more records, including…
[streaming] Bill Botting & The Two Drink Minimums – Graceland
“Graceland is taken” from the debut album by Bill Botting & The Two Drink Minimums “Better Friends”, out March 2017. Bill Botting & The Two Drink Minimums are: Bill Botting (Allo Darlin’) Hannah Botting (Owl & Mouse) Paul Rains (Tigercats/Allo Darlin’) Tom Wade (Owl & Mouse) Jonny Helm (The Wave Pictures) http://www.facebook.com/billbottingband
[streaming] High Plains – Cinderland
High Plains is the duo of Scott Morgan and Mark Bridges. Morgan, based in the Canadian Pacific Northwest, is predominantly known for his drifting, textured soundscapes released under the pseudonym loscil. Bridges is an accomplished, classically-trained cellist residing in Madison, Wisconsin. The two met in Banff, Alberta while they were simultaneously there on residencies at…
[streaming] Jo Mango – Wisps Of Something
Taken from “It Is Something To Have Been”, a split EP featuring four of Olive Grove Records finest talents, Jo Mango, Call To Mind, State Broadcasters and The Son(s). In a field saturated with folk-influenced singer-songwriters Jo Mango stands apart. Her beguiling yet intensely intellectual work draws upon her adventures whilst travelling the world as a…
[streaming] The Color Waves – Play Along
The Color Waves is a long-distance home-recording project featuring ex-members of All My Friends. “Play Along” is the title track of a digital single released December 5th and it’s featured as the current “single of the week” of the radio show L’Attimo Fuggente. http://www.thecolorwaves.com/
[streaming] Enderby’s Room – Lakeside
Enderby’s Room is fiddle player Dan Mayfield, once from rural Lincolnshire, but he has now found home living in London. His folk tinged songs reflect on his traditional folk upbringing, which included playing fiddle for Morris dancing sides around the country. Mayfield has played fiddle for many artists including Daniel Johnston, Darren Hayman, The Wave…
[streaming] Piano Magic – Landline
After twenty years, Piano Magic’s announce final album “Closure,”. It will be formally released by Second Language Music on January 20th 2017 worldwide on CD, 180gm vinyl and digital download formats. Recorded in London between April and August of this year, ‘Closure,’ features guest appearances from Peter Milton Walsh of The Apartments, Audrey Riley (go-to…
[streaming] The Declining Winter – Flaxen
Taken from “Prietenii” compilation album, whose aim is to help raise much needed funds for stray Romanian dogs. 100% of the income from the album will be donated to the Romanian Rescue Appeal, a UK based charity that to date has saved over 1400 dogs from the horrors of the Romanian public shelters and streets….
[streaming] Dark Globes – Dream Away
From the forthcoming album “Everybody I Know Is Falling Apart”, released March 2017 (Half Machine Records). Reassuringly downbeat, ego-free pop music, burying fragile songs under a fuzzy blanket of reverb, lit by a candle of jangle. A shy collective of Southenders, a mismatched coalescence of oddballs. “Dream Away” is featured as the current “single of the…
[streaming] Nadia Reid – The Arrow & The Aim
“The Arrow & The Aim” is taken from the new album “Preservation”, out 3rd March 2017. Self-discovery doesn’t come easy. It’s usually a rite of passage to get burned before the wounds can heal and often takes a new perspective to truly understand yourself. 18 months and 10,000kms travelled since many needles first dropped on…
[streaming] Aidan Baker w. Claire Brentnall – Delirious Things
“Delirious Things” is an exploration of Aidan Baker‘s interest in 80s-influenced cold-wave, shoegaze, and synth-pop from such recording artists as Factory Records’ Durutti Column, Joy Division, and Section 25 and 4AD’s Cocteau Twins and This Mortal Coil. Combining song-oriented tracks with abstract interludes, the primary instrument on “Delirious Things” is a 1980s Casio synthesizer, rather…
[streaming] Joe Sampson – Otherwise The Pull
Track taken from the new Joe Sampson release, “Chansons de Parade” out December 1st via Hidden Shoal Records. Joe Sampson is the champion of the musical understatement, each song exuding a gently mesmerising beauty. His music evokes the comfortably sad acoustic tones of Nick Drake or Leonard Cohen, ornamented with often darkly humorous lyrics, intoned…
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