[streaming] Concetta Abbate – Creatures

Taken from “Mirror Touch”, out September 25th 2020. Mirror Touch is the upcoming second album from Concetta Abbate, a NYC based violinist, singer and composer. The album is a song cycle, the outcome of creative collaboration between a musician/composer and women facing mental health challenges, including their struggles with self-care. The album is set for…

[streaming] Jeremy Squires – Cast Spells

First track available from the album “Many Moons”, out August 28th on Blackbird Record Label. Jeremy Squires surprised even himself with the sonic textures of his newest album, Many Moons. One of North Carolina’s most prolific folk singer-songwriters, Squires opted to record the songs he’s written on his analog keyboard over the last few years…

[streaming] Skyway Man – Muddy Water

James Wallace–singer, songwriter and producer behind Skyway Man–presents “The World Only Ends When You Die”, a spinning disc flashing the finest examples of cosmological country and sci-fi gospel blues. “The World Only Ends When You Die was conceived as a tragédie lyrique – a cinematic psych-folk opera about a person rendered incapable of coping with…

[streaming] Rosehip Teahouse – Regretting It

New digital single out now via Sad Club Records. “Regretting It is a song I wrote last year when I was feeling totally overwhelmed. I struggle with understanding and coping with my emotions at the best of times, and I was making decisions that I knew were bad for me and trying not to sink…

[streaming] Lila Tristram – Our Friends

Title track from the album “Our Friends”, out September 25th 2020 via WYAIWYA. Lila Tristram is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based in East London. She is a graduate from Goldsmiths University which, following several big success stories including Puma Blue, Rosie Lowe and James Blake, has become a sought after hotspot for British musicians. Since…

[streaming] Caitlin Pasko – Horrible Person

Caitlin Pasko – the Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter, piano player, and weaver of dreamy, elegiac meditations – has announced the impending release of her new album “Greenhouse”, out August 28 on Whatever’s Clever. “Greenhouse” derives its name from structures that protect plant life from unfavorable external conditions, and from environments in which flora adapt in order to…

[streaming] Logan Farmer – Rome, Through A Fog

Taken from “Still No Mother”, out August 21st 2020 via Western Vinyl. On “Still No Mother”, the Colorado-based songwriter processes and explores climate change anxiety using the framework of the American folk song. The album grew from an initial concept of imagining the songs farmhands will sing when their acreage has dried up or burned,…

[streaming] Corasandel – Cracked Light

A hazy drone with cymbals drenched in reverb, evolving into a three minute ambient-pop song, “Cracked Light” hopes that the ones we care about are ok. “I was older, lost by change.” “Cracked Light” is backed by instrumental b-side “Alaudidae”. Recorded in isolation, with the band emailing tracks to each other. The digital single is…

[streaming] Colorama – And

‘And’ is the first song to be released by Colorama since their last album, ‘Some Things Just Take Time’ in 2017. It sees the beginning (chronologically at least) of a collaboration between Carwyn Ellis and the extraordinarily talented American producer Shawn Lee, which has already yielded awesome music by Rio 18 and Saint Etienne. In…

[streaming] Aisha Burns – 15th Amendment

Taken from “Until We All Are Free (Benefit EP)”, out now digitally. This track was originally composed for WNYC’s “More Perfect” podcast. The song illustrates the passing of the 15th amendment in 1870, which granted Black Americans the right to vote. Part of the amendment text reads that no man shall be discriminated against by…

[streaming] Fort Not – Jennie Brown

Taken from “The Club Is Open”, out September 11th via Meritorio Records. Fort Not is a Gothenburg based band, emerged out of the fumes of gin and tonic during a west coast summer night. The band, consisting of two friends, Fredrik and Robert, is a musically odd couple that found common ground in catchy pop…

[streaming] Max Gowan – Tracing

“Tracing” is the third single from “Last Companion”, the new album by Max Gowan, out June 19th via Z Tapes. The songs on “Last Companion” meditate on solidarity among friends and romantic partners while facing an ever-creeping apocalypse. Written before a present where the hand on our shoulder from a trusted friend seems like an…

[streaming] Sally Anne Morgan – Thread Song

Acclaimed fiddler, banjoist and vocalist Sally Anne Morgan has announced her debut solo release “Thread”, out August 21st, 2020. Morgan is an artist and multi-instrumentalist whose mastery of traditional folk forms is matched only by her ability to push the bounds of those forms into fresh, imaginative pastures. Known for her fiddle playing with the…

[streaming] Thibault – Centrelink

Thibault, a new band helmed by Melbourne singer-songwriter Nicole Thibault, has shared their debut single, ‘Centrelink’, alongside an album announcement. ‘Centrelink’ is the first single lifted from Thibault’s debut album, ‘Or Not Thibault’, which is slated for a September 4 release via Chapter Music. The record was produced by James Cecil, known for his work…

[streaming] Lydia Cole – Something New

Hailing from the North Shore of Auckland, Lydia Cole has already played a host of live shows in New Zealand and Australia. Only just into her twenties, she’s already won the support of Neil Finn, who hosted the recording of her EP ‘Love Will Find A Way’ at his Roundhead studios, playing Wurlitzer on some…

[streaming] Karima Walker & Katy Kirby – Right By You

Taken from “Among Horses V”, out June 19th via Son Canciones. A farm in the middle of nowhere. Sixty Spanish horses. And two songwriters who do not know each other, strangers with the same destiny. The critically acclaimed songwriters Karima Walker (Tucson, USA) and Katy Kirby (Nashville, USA) were dropped in a retirement home for…

[streaming] The Slow Summits – Safe And Sorry

“Safe And Sorry” is the first single from the forthcoming album by The Slow Summits, a four-piece pop band from Linköping, Sweden. The song’s a jangly lamentation about the restless sense of living life in jogtrot. A life less extraordinary. A happy one. Yet the nagging feeling that some piece in the puzzle might be…

[streaming] David Allred – Aquarius

Taken from “Baba Bruloakr”, out August 5th 2020. Hailing from Loomis, a small town outside of Sacramento, via Portland, Oregon — David worked as a sound engineer and session musician, featuring on multiple recordings by the likes of Birger Olsen, Brigid Mae Power, Brumes, The Beacon Sound Choir, Chantal Acda, Heather Woods Broderick, Jung Body,…

[streaming] Pop Filter – Romance At The Petrol Station

The Ocean Party doesn’t exist anymore because one of its six members, Zac Denton, very sadly passed away. All other five members, including jangle pop hero Lachlan Denton and other Australian indie scene legends such as Liam Halliwell (Snowy) and Nick Kearton (Cool Sounds), are now Pop Filter. Pop Filter began as a collective creative…