First single off the upcoming record “Second Day of Spring”. Annie Oakley have fought hard for happiness. At just 23-years-old, twin sisters Sophia and Jo had faced a decade of darkness. Then they built lighthouses. Annie Oakley’s official debut, Second Day of Spring, is a towering beacon: a victorious indie-folk record that further introduces two…
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[streaming] Jesse Narens – Woodpecker Song
New track by Jesse Narens, available to stream and download (name your price) via Bandcamp. Jesse Narens creates art through an intuitive process with basic materials, and without formal training on any tool or technique. With no attachment to preconceived ideas, pieces begin without sketches. While most elements are placed with intention, everything is open…
[streaming] Jeffrey Martin – I Know What I Know
New single by Jeffrey Martin, out now via Fluff And Gravy Records. There’s a quiet dignity to the stories on “One Go Around”, but a kind of quiet desperation as well. The stories hit hard, because we know we may not be far off from them ourselves in this time of uncertainty. There’s a sense…
[streaming] Tristen – Complex
Opening track of the album *Aquatic Flowers*, out April 6th on Mama Bird Recording Co. Nashville singer-songwriter Tristen presents “Aquatic Flowers” via Mama Bird Recording Co. It is for fans of of Neko case, Jenny Lewis, Cass McCombs, Tennis, Phoebe Bridgers and Caitlin Rose. From Tristen: “I’ve always felt that making records was too influenced…
[streaming] The Catenary Wires – Mirroball
New single from The Catenary Wires, out April 16th 2021 via Skep Wax Records and Shelflife Records. “Mirrorball” takes two lonely single people, and takes them for a night out in an 80s disco. Surrounded by divorcees and middle-aged drunks, will they be too shy to talk, or will they find some love action? Is this going…
[streaming] Will Stratton – Tokens
“Tokens” is the opening track of “The Changing Wilderness”, the new album by Will Stratton, out May 7th 2021 via Bella Union. Of “Tokens” Stratton says: “Tokens is a song addressed to the fraternal twins, the most frequent subjects of songs since songs were created: time and love. The afternoon that I was writing it, the weird weather we…
[streaming] Rick Treffers – Relief
Track from the forthcoming album “Looking For A Place To Stay” (due May 6th 2021). Rick Treffers (1967) is a Dutch songwriter, singer, musician and producer. Het has been releasing albums since 1995 as Mist, El Turista Optimista, Miss Universe, Girlfriend Misery and Rick Treffers. In 2018 he published his first novel (in Dutch) Ik wou…
[streaming] Aurora Aura – Purity
New single from the duo of Alice Fawn (vocals, lyrics) and Dustin Sebes (guitar), based in Asbury Park, New Jersey, creating ethereal enchanted dreamscapes. Following last summer’s “Ascension EP”, Aurora Aura are going to release their debut full-length self-titled album, out via Totally Real Records. https://www.facebook.com/AuroraAuraMusic
[streaming] Conor Lynch – King Of It
Taken from “Fake”, out February 26th 2021 via Devil Town Tapes. Conor Lynch’s long-awaited full-length effort ‘Fake’ marks something of a departure and widening of scope for Lynch, with the folk-rock stylings of his 2019 sophomore ‘People Don’t Think It Be Like It Is but it Do and Don’t’ newly accompanied by heavier tones and…
[streaming] Rose City Band – Lonely Places
Rose City Band, the solo project of singer/guitarist Ripley Johnson, has announced new album Earth Trip, out 21 May. On Earth Trip, Johnson colors songs with a country-rock twang and a melancholic, wistful undertone. Themes recur such as pining for summers spent in the company of friends to newer meditations on space, stillness and the splendor of the natural…
[streaming] Ski Saigon – It’s Already Tomorrow
Taken from “Sees the Albatross”, out March 4th 2021 via Too Good To Be True. “Ski Saigon Sees the Albatross” is the debut album by London-based band Ski Saigon. It follows “Brings the Storm Cloud EP” (Art is Hard, 2016), a concept record about the history of the world’s first indoor ski slope in French-occupied…
[streaming] Elephant Micah – Glacier Advisors
From the album “Vague Tidings”, available April 9, 2021 on Western Vinyl. The raw inspiration for “Vague Tidings”, Elephant Micah’s third effort for Western Vinyl, comes from a DIY tour of the 49th state. It was a trip that went off the beaten path—sometimes a bit too far for comfort. Now, over a decade later,…
[streaming] The Rabbitts – This Time Last Year
‘This Time Last Year’ is the first song of twelve which The Rabbitts are releasing on the last day of each month in 2021. The Rabbitts are a couple in love; two travellers with a passion for music. Their songs are acoustic at heart, but experimental in nature; they challenge their listeners to follow them…
[streaming] Caoilfhionn Rose – Flourish
“Flourish” is the opening track of “Truly”, the new album from Manchester singer-songwriter Caoilfhionn Rose (pronounced Keelin), out April 9th 2021 via GondWana Records. The album moves through a tapestry of curious musical inflections; nods towards folk, jazz, ambient, electronica and even a subtle influence of psychedelia, it never stands still to take a breath,…
[streaming] Juliet Quick – Circles
“Circles” is the opening track of “Glass Years” EP, out March 5th 2021 via Substitute Scene Records. Juliet Quick builds worlds. Her songs are stark, sweet, weary, frank, immediate, vulnerably plainspoken, always sharply observed. On her forthcoming Glass Years EP, she carves out a space of her own by combining spare acoustics, playful synths, frenetic…
[streaming] Tristan Eckerson – Quiet Now
New single by Tristan Eckerson, out digitally on February 5th 2021. Quiet Now” is probably the most minimal, haunting, and ethereal composition for solo piano that Tristan Eckerson has ever created. Using the sound of sustain and reverb as an instrument unto itself, the gentle and eerie track is both mysterious and soothing, peaceful and…
[streaming] David Latto – Far From The Light
‘Far From the Light’ is the new single from Scottish Singer/Songwriter David Latto. The song was written in July 2019, before the pandemic arrived, but its central theme of disconnection is one that will resonate with many. “The lyric was scribbled down while I was sitting in Kirkcaldy Art Gallery reflecting on John Bellany’s painting ‘The Old…
[streaming] Allison Lorenzen – Vale (feat. Midwife)
As one half of the synth / percussion duo School Dance, Denver based artist Allison Lorenzen became adept at pulling beautiful vocal melodies across skeletal compositions, bringing barren landscapes into full bloom. On Lorenzen’s first solo outing, she enlists the talents of Madeline Johnston’s Shoegaze project Midwife (The Flenser) to root her spectral vocals, keyboards…
[streaming] Wyndow – Take My Picture
Wyndow is a collaboration between Laura J Martin and Lavinia Blackwall (Trembling Bells). A set of musical postcards sent across the wires from Liverpool to Clydebank and once described by a four year old boy as a complete nightmare. Voices intertwine on a bed of homebrewed minimalism with words detailing the quiet moments. “Take My…
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