DISSENT – Without You E.P. (Everything Sucks, 2020) Come nel recente caso di Rapt, basta poco per lasciarsi affascinare dal suono rotondo, lento e dilatato di un semplice giro di chitarra. È tuttavia elettrica quella di Mark Jasper, produttore e componente della band inglese Witching Waves, al debutto col suo progetto personale Dissent. Il suo…
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[video of the week] Keiron Phelan & Peace Signs – Hobby Jingo
Taken from the album “Hobby Jingo”, released Nov 13th 2020 on Gare du Nord Records. Footage by Helen Smith. Keiron Phelan and Peace Signs are delighted to bring you the summer album that never was. Didn’t have a proper summer? Didn’t think so. Stage it now, with Hobby Jingo. Songs about candy floss, cinnamon, Imogen,…
PETER BRODERICK – Blackberry (Erased Tapes, 2020) Le sbarazzine note di tromba che danno inizio al brano di apertura “Stop And Listen” individuano da subito lo spirito che anima il nuovo lavoro di Peter Broderick, nonché suo primo album vero e proprio dai tempi di “Colours Of The Night” (2015). Nel frattempo, il prolifico polistrumentista…
[video of the week] Jim Ghedi – Beneath The Willow
Taken from “In the Furrows of Common Place”, out January 22th 2021 via Basin Rock. Whilst Jim Ghedi’s previous idiosyncratic take on folk has often been instrumental, exploring the natural world and his relationship to it through his music, as seen on 2018’s A Hymn For Ancient Land. His new album In The Furrow Of…
[streaming] Elle Mary – Safe Space
New track by Elle Mary. “Not about covid but many of the sentiments may resonate with people right now. It’s a song for a loved one, about doing all you can to make them feel loved and secure. In doing that you also offer yourself that same compassion. Offer your love outwards and inwards.“ Drawn…
THIS IS THE KIT – Off Off On (Rough Trade, 2020) Al quinto album, Kate Stables si è ormai sensibilmente distaccata dal suo originario profilo di cantautrice folk, senza tuttavia rinnegarlo affatto. Merito della sua curiosità nella ricerca di spunti sonori variopinti e spesso inusuali, ma anche dell’incontro con Aaron Dessner di The National, che…
RAPT – None Of This Will Matter (Z Tapes, 2020) A volte, immancabilmente, è sufficiente un giro di chitarra dalle soffici risonanze per risvegliare dolci memorie e destare l’attenzione su una nuova, piccola produzione indipendente. Nell’occasione si tratta delle prime note di “Siren Bay”, brano di apertura di “None Of This Will Matter”, secondo lavoro…
[streaming] Lucy Langlas – Can’t Breathe
Single release from upcoming album, “Children of the Sun”, coming 2021. Singer-songwriter Lucy Langlas was born and raised in Montana, in a rural area called Echo canyon. She began writing music in high school and quickly began searching for ways to expand her experiences. Having moved about from places like Los Angeles, New Orleans, and…
[video of the week] JESSICA – Pictures
Taken from JESSICA’s debut solo album “The Space Between”, out now via https://iamjessicavox.bandcamp.com/releases. JESSICA is one half of the underground Folk-Noir Duo, from Sydney, Jep and Dep. Their music is often compared to Lee Hazelwood and Nancy Sinatra meets Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue. Beautifully dark, dramatic and Cinematic. Formed in 2012, the duo independently…
SALLY ANNE MORGAN – Thread (Thrill Jockey, 2020) Al primo album solista, Sally Anne Morgan non smentisce la propensione a combinare tradizione folk con soluzioni inedite, del resto già propria della sua attività nel duo House And Land. Al lirismo appalachiano di banjo, fiddle e interpretazioni evocative, i nove brani raccolti in “Thread” aggiungono dinamiche…
[video of the week] Desert Blonde – It Ain’t Bad (To Be Alone)
Single from the upcoming EP ‘Live Slow Die Old’ out Oct 23. Desert Blonde, a.k.a. the Brooklyn-based musician Zach Hinkle, has shared “Stay For Good,”–the second single from his upcoming new EP, Live Slow Die Old–along with a new video for “It Ain’t Bad (To Be Alone).” < p style=”text-align:justify;”>Hinkle’s dry-witted, sincere lyricism and tear-in-your-beer…
[streaming] Darci Phenix – Wishbone
Title track of the new album by Darci Phenix, out January 5th 2021. Portland, Oregon-based songwriter Darci Phenix bought her first bass guitar in her home town of Sacramento with the counsel of her mother, a lawyer turned musician, and Michael Roe, the leader of 80s rock group “The 77s.” A community of musicians and…
CUT WORMS – Nobody Lives Here Anymore(Jagjaguwar, 2020) Se il debutto “Hollow Ground” aveva rivelato il gusto pop retrò di Max Clarke sotto forma di canzoni dalle melodie scorrevoli e solari, “Nobody Lives Here Anymore” ne eleva con decisione il profilo a quello di ricercato cultore di uno stile sixties radicato nelle tradizioni americane. Non…
[streaming] Dex Wolfe – Highly Likely
Second single from “Lightness EP”, out October 23rd. Dex Wolfe is a Seward-based multi-instrumentalist that has been a mainstay of the Minneapolis music scene for years. In acts such as Rivers and Undlin & Wolfe, he embraced a lush, pastoral folk sound, but as he’s ready to release music under his own name, Wolfe experiments…
CINDER WELL – No Summer (Free Dirt, 2020) In maniera non soltanto figurata la musica di Amelia Baker attraversa l’Atlantico, stabilendo connessioni tra il folk appalachiano e la tradizione narrativa irlandese. In Irlanda si è infatti da qualche tempo stabilita la musicista di origine californiana, al secondo album sotto l’alias Cinder Well. Scritto in Irlanda…
[video of the week] Keeley Forsyth – Photograph
Taken from then new EP Photograph released on November 20th 2020. Keeley Forsyth is a composer, singer and actor from Oldham in the north-west of England. Forsyth’s first acting role was as Nicky in the BBC children’s television series The Biz in 1995, appearing alongside Paul Nicholls. She subsequently appeared in several television series. In…
A LILAC DECLINE – Shelter From The Shadows (Rusted Rail, 2020) Le scarne ambientazioni acustiche in bassa fedeltà del debutto “The Mountain Rages” (2017) avevano rivelato l’ispirata voce folk di Cecilia Danell, che sotto l’alias-anagramma A Lilac Decline dimostrava di saper spaziare tra visionario misticismo acustico e ricerca di soluzioni più varie sperimentali. Quest’ultimo profilo…
[streaming] Jack Name – Sacred Place
“Sacred Place” is the second single from Jack Name’s forthcoming record “Magic Touch”, out November 20th 2020 via Mexican Summer. Of the introspective gem of a track, Jack says, “Whenever I feel like I’m lost, or things are out of control, I can always come back to music. Music brings me back to life.” Alongside…
[video of the week] Sam Burton – I Am No Moon
Third single from Sam Burton’s forthcoming album, “I Can Go With You”, out Oct 30th via Tompkins Square. Sam Burton has shared a new song “I Am No Moon”, along with an official music video. This is the third single ahead of his upcoming album I Can Go With You to be released October 30…
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