GREAT NORTH – The Caravan Recordings I (Son Canciones, 2018) Aderente più che mai alla teoria per cui i contesti di creazione e realizzazione possono influenzare in maniera decisiva l’ispirazione e i suoni prodotti da un artista, l’etichetta spagnola Son Canciones inaugura una nuova serie di pubblicazioni “a tema”. Dopo l’allevamento di cavalli che fa…
Tag: alt-folk-pop
[video of the week] The Innocence Mission – Green Bus
Having last month announced their new album “Sun On The Square”, released 6th July via Bella Union, The Innocence Mission have now shared the first music video from the LP. Featuring beautiful, distinctive animation created by the band’s multi–talented vocalist Karen Peris, the video for “Green Bus” can be viewed here. Of the video Peris…
[video of the week] Paper Cranes 折り鶴 – Midsummer
Filmed by Fraser and Naomi Browne and Jordan Vickers on Super 8 (Chinon) around Auckland, Mount Maunganui, Hamilton and at festivals, it’s a special snapshot of a New Zealand summer. Edited by Sami Tuomisalo. Written by Fraser Browne and Naomi Browne, ‘Midsummer’ was performed by Fraser Browne (vocals) and Naomi Browne (piano and vocals), Nic…
LAISH – Time Elastic (Talitres, 2018)* Al quarto disco dei suoi Laish, Daniel Green prosegue l’itinerario di graduale scostamento dalle mai rinnegate radici indie-folk che ne legano indissolubilmente la figura al crogiolo artistico del Willkommen Collective per condivide un ulteriore grado di maturazione del suo fluido songwriting, ancora una volta assistito da uno spiccato gusto…
[streaming] Lonely Tourist – Sometimes I Can’t Even Say Hello
Taken from “Remuneration”, out February 9th, Singer songwriter Paul Tierney has become something of a feature on the Bristol music scene over recent years, since his move south from Glasgow. His new album Remuneration is his fourth under the Lonely Tourist heading, he also a key player in Plume of Feathers a project dedicated to…
[streaming] R. W. Hedges – Best Laid Plans
Taken from “The Hunters In The Snow”, out April 27th via Wonderfulsound. Pieced together on a canal boat in London, and drawn from Seemingly pulled from the golden days of easy listening, the new record finds Roy Edges and songwriting partner, producer, and label-mate Luca Neiri in beautifully compelling form, the collaboration coming after a…
[video of the week] Laish – Time Elastic
Laish are excited to announce the first track/video from imminent fourth album “Time Elastic”, their second for French label Talitres, due on 13 April. Shot by brother Matt – actor, stand-up & budding film maker – in his kitchen, the simple video compliments the subject matter. The song demonstrates frontman Danny Green at his most…
[streaming] The Gentle Good – Y Gwyfyn
“Y Gwyfyn” is the opening track and title track of a new five songs EP by The Gentle Good, that will be released on February 9th via Bubblewrap Collective. The EP is entirely sang in the Welsh langauge to celebrate Welsh Language Music Day 2018. The EP contains brand new tracks and previously unreleased material…
[streaming] Those Unfortunates – Harvest Song
A Christmas gift from Those Unfortunates. Those Unfortunates are a four piece band from London, who release on their own Midnight Bell record label. They formed in January 2013, almost taking their name from B S Johnson’s 1969 ‘book in a box.’ Those Unfortunates wear herringbone coats and oxblood shoes without ever really managing to…
[streaming] Daniel Carlson – Just Like Nothing
Daniel Carlson is one of those artists that you can’t help but recognise as a truly creative artist and a generally decent human being. In the making of his fourth album ‘Not A Drawing’ and arguably a future classic it is worth noting the thought process behind the making of something that, in an age…
COLORAMA – Some Things Just Take Time (Wonderfulsounds, 2017)* Come per l’affinamento di un buon vino – anzi, visti tempi e provenienza, per la maturazione di un whisky – il tempo è fattore decisivo nella scrittura di canzoni pop, pratica artigianale che richiede pazienza e dedizione, prima nell’attesa dello scoccare della giusta scintilla, poi nella…
[streaming] Grawlixes – A Fine Rain
“A Fine Rain” is taken from “Set Free”, the debut album by Grawlixes is a Wellington-by-way-of-Dunedin indie-folk band intent on inserting themselves into your brain with their intelligent, infectious songs about relationships and not being invited to parties. Continuing the great lineage of artists who bring sadness to their sprightly melodies, Grawlixes’s music deals in the melancholy…
ODDFELLOW’S CASINO – Oh, Sealand (Microcultures, 2017)* Strana storia, quella di David Bramwell e dei suoi Oddfellow’s Casino; da un lato si tratta di una storia creativa tipicamente inglese, tanto per le proprie radici nelle montagne del Sussex quanto per uno stile che rimanda a un’eleganza decadente tutta britannica, dall’altro di un piccolo culto che…
[streaming] Oddfellow’s Casino – Swallow The Day
Taken from the new album “Oh, Sealand”, released July 7th 2017. A hidden treasure of the English music scene, Oddfellow’s Casino have been quietly releasing albums over the past fifteen years, to critical acclaim. They hail from the mountains of Sussex and are an ensemble whose music and live performances centre around forgotten corners of…
[video of the week] Crescent – Get Yourself Tidy
Crescent – Get Yourself Tidy (Official Video) taken from the new album “Resin Pockets” available 26th May 2017. This video was made by Sam & Matt Jones & features footage of them recording the album. If it’s been a long while since Little Waves, the intimate treasure they released in 2007, that’s because much like…
LAISH – Pendulum Swing (Talitres, 2016)* I tre anni che separano il precedente “Obituaries” dal nuovo lavoro Daniel Green e della mutevole schiera di musicisti che lo affianca sotto la sigla Laish hanno rappresentato per il songwriter di Brighton un momento di passaggio simbolico, dal punto di vista sia personale che artistico. L’intensa attività dal…
[streaming] The Broken Broadcast – The River
The Broken Broadcast are a lo-fi folk band from the UK, originally consisting of James Riggall vocals and acoustic guitar, Emma Reeve drums, Grizzo Hughes bass and Carolyn Reilly violin. The band released their first full length album, “Soya Milk Sea“ with Pilot Records, in 2010, gaining underground media attention from The Northern Line and Suitcase…
[streaming] skul.kid – Car Crash, September 2015
skul.kid is the solo project of Chicago-based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Chace Wall (formerly of The Vale). Combining tight song forms, tape recording techniques, and electronic sounds, skul.kid echoes the experimental leanings of Broadcast, Radiohead, Atlas Sound and Grizzly Bear. http://facebook.com/skul.kid.music
[streaming] Places Erupt – Mayday
We’re Places Erupt. A Toronto-based quintet. Our instrumentation: acoustic guitar, electric cello, violin, drums, and vocals. We’re not classical, we’re not folk, we’re not rock, but our sound is infused with all three. An advance review of our upcoming record “Breathe A Storm”: “Places Erupt play elegantly fluid, elemental chamber-folk-rock, built on the tensions between…
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