[streaming] Owen – Settled Down

“Settled Down” appears on Owen‘s upcoming full-length album, “The King of Whys”, out 7/29/2016. Owen – the acclaimed solo musical guise of singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Mike Kinsella – has made an astonishing leap forward with The King of Whys, the first work in his two-decade-plus career to be made entirely outside of the greater Chicagoland area. Produced…

[streaming] The Amazing – Ambulance

From “Ambulance”, out July 22nd via Partisan Records. Christoffer Gunrup, The Amazing’s lead singer, songwriter and one of the band’s three lead guitarists, is known for his reluctance to talk about his process. He prefers to let the music speak for itself. He refuses to take part in the promotion of the band, never reveals…

[streaming] Sophie Hutchings – Memory I

First track taken from the album “Wide Asleep”, available July 22nd 2016 via Preservation Records. Compared with the likes of Max Richter, Dustin O’Halloran, Nils Frahm and other like minded composers, Hutchings has prompted much critical praise worldwide, with MOJO Magazine declaring her work as ‘stirring, vigorous, [and] grandly melodic”. Hutchings debut album was listed…

[streaming] Palomica – Honeydew

The lead single taken from Palomica’s album “Petito”, “Honeydew” is a playful piece of pop magic, co-written by and featuring Rosie Smith of Oh Peas. Release: June 10th. Palomica is the home-recorded clumsy rock and roll project of Nicol Parkinson. It’s incidental outside sounds alongside tumbling words and occasional guitar flourishes: sometimes melodic, sometimes cacophonic….

[streaming] Queen Of The Meadow – In A Nutshell

Helen Ferguson (34 years old, Bordeaux, France) had never touched a guitar nor written a song until she was 27. Her only musical experience consisted of singing in the local church choir. When she finally got a guitar for her birthday, an inevitable urge to write songs came along with it. Parts and pieces from…

[streaming] Birger Olsen – The Lights Just Buzz

For fans of Portland’s country supergroup Denver, Birger Olsen is known as the one with that voice. His vocal singularity has an undeniable power. His strikingly low delivery is leisurely yet precise, while his straightforward lyrics hold a subtle humor often laced in sweet sentiments, not unlike Randy Newman, Lyle Lovett and John Prine. Over…

[streaming] Glacis – From One Room To Another (So You Leave Me Now)

Glacis is Euan Alexander Millar-McMeeken with Ed Hamilton. Track taken from “The World Is A Little Lonelier Without You”, out now on Fluid Audio. “From One Room To Another (So You Leave Me Now)”, in an exclusive version including spoken word by Ali McMekeen is featured as the current “single of the week” of the radio show L’Attimo…

[streaming] Slow Meadow – Lachrymosia

A song for the stages of grief. “Lachrymosia” marks the beginning of a series of singles to be released every four to six weeks for the rest of the year. Slow Meadow is ambient compositions from multi-instrumentalist Matt Kidd. After working as a touring / session musician since the early 2000s, Matt took a serious…

[streaming] Fenne Lily – Top To Toe

Bristol based singer songwriter Fenne Lily has released her debut single, “Top to Toe”. The folk tinged number rightly focuses on Lily’s powerful voice. “Top to Toe” is a pared down number, with Lily opening her heart up in music. This leads to an affecting song; one that the listener can’t help but pay close…

[streaming] M Craft – Blood Moon

“Blood Moon” is the title track from M Craft’s third album. Martin Craft is a songwriter, composer and music producer. “Blood Moon”, the new album, is a sprawling, cosmic piano epic, recorded during a year adrift in California’s Mojave desert, lost in its deep silences, other-planetary landscapes, and impossibly starry skies. “Blood Moon” is released via Heavenly…

[streaming] California Snow Story – Motorway

Taken from California Snow Story new album “Some Other Places”, coming May 27 th on digital format via Shelflife Records. David Skirving began California Snow Story in 2001 after leaving Scottish band Camera Obscura. David was a founder member and original guitarist of Camera Obscura and he gave the band their name. He wrote four…

[streaming] Kramies & Alma Forrer – Into The Sparks

Once upon a time there was a wonderful songstress named Alma who lived in a beautiful land called Paris. Very far away, up high in the mountains lived a quiet troubadour named Kramies. One day as Kramies was walking through the woods he started to sing a mysterious song. As she was sitting in her…

[streaming] Tim Richmond Group – Come to Papa

“Come to Papa” is the first single from Tim Richmond Group’s new album “What’s in the Middle?” — out July 1, 2016. The follow-up to Richmond’s strikingly understated 2012 ‘solo’ album “Dot” is an altogether different affair, with elements of funk, dark disco and 60s pastoral sounds finding their way into the Melbourne musician’s skewed…

[streaming] Gregory Alan Isakov – Liars

Taken from the new album by Gregory Alan Isakov with the Colorado Symphony, out on June 10th. Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and calling Colorado home, Gregory Alan Isakov has been traveling all his life. Songs that hone a masterful quality tell a story of miles and landscapes, and the search for a sense of…

[streaming] Matt Maltese – Studio 6

Taken from the debut EP “In A New Bed”. Matt Maltese is a 20 year old singer and songwriter. Now based in South London, he’s fully immersed himself in the local emerging music scene, from putting on shows for himself and other local names at makeshift venues, namely South London studio 180 – a dilapidated…

[streaming] Aukai – Hidden

Aukai is a Hawaiian word meaning seafarer or traveler. It’s also used as a proper name, and people who are called “Aukai” tend to have a mystical, philosophical, introspective nature. All of which makes Aukai the perfect name for the new album and project by multi-instrumentalist and composer Markus Sieber. It’s a collection of ambient…

[streaming] Anna Tivel – Look Away

Taken from Heroes “Waking Up”, Anna Tivel’s third full-length album, out on Fluff & Gravy Records on May 20th. “Waking Ep” is the result of a year spent living and writing in a friend’s garage and on the road. The eleven song recording winds through a dusky darkness of hopeful strangers, shadowed struggle, quiet love,…