Taken from the film soundtrack “Birdwatcher”, out now via Hand In Hive. Written and directed by award-winning filmmaker Laurie Barraclough, the film tells the story of a young woman suffering with bereavement. Stumbling into the English countryside, she embarks on a poetic search for a very specific bird. Zoe Mead of Wyldest provides the soundtrack,…
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CAITLIN PASKO – Greenhouse (Whatever’s Clever, 2020)* Non è più soltanto la timida ragazza al pianoforte la newyorkese Caitlin Pasko (in precedenza attiva sotto l’alias Lacrymosa), che per il secondo lavoro a proprio nome evolve in termini di elementi sonori e, soprattutto, di consapevolezza creativa la cristallina semplicità delle trame dei brani raccolti nella cassetta…
[streaming] Juanita Stein – The Mavericks
Juanita Stein has released a new song, ‘The Mavericks’, from her upcoming third album, ‘Snapshot’, which is set for release via Nude Records on 2nd October in all formats. ‘The Mavericks’ follows the recent release of the LP’s title track, which picked up early support from the likes of Mojo, Clash and 6 Music for…
ADVANCE BASE – Live At Home (Orindal, 2020) In un periodo nel quale le registrazioni casalinghe in circolazione si sono moltiplicate, anche al di là della scelta estetica degli artisti, non sorprende che un artista come Owen Ashworth, la cui attività ventennale è stata sempre improntata a produzioni “da cameretta”, sia tornato a proporre alcune…
[video of the week] Sophie Jamieson – Forward
From the Release EP (release date December 1st 2020). Video filmed, directed & edited by Sophie Jamieson. Earlier this year, Sophie Jamieson released the Hammer EP which received a lot great feedback, now she’s back with her new track ‘Forward’. The subject matter of ‘Forward’ is about being lost, and not knowing which way to…
MICROWOLF – My Cauliflower Ears (Lost Tribe Sound, 2020)* “I can never see / anything you see I hear other voices / calling Whispering / crawling under skin Fragments of faces / forgotten“ I primi versi del brano d’apertura “Mara” rispecchiano in maniera già ben precisa i contenuti e le sensazioni che promanano da “My…
ODDFELLOW’S CASINO – Burning! Burning! (Nightjar, 2020) Ormai prossimo a celebrare il ventennale di Oddfellow’s Casino, David Bramwell aggiunge un nuovo capitolo – il settimo della serie – alla propria personale storia artistica, ancora una volta a cavallo tra musica e letteratura, nella stessa misura in cui rimane radicata nei racconti e delle tradizioni britanniche,…
[streaming] Julia Meijer – Skydda Dig
New digital single by Julia Meijer. Julia Meijer is a singer, guitarist and songwriter from Stockholm, Sweden, currently based in Oxford, UK. Having formed her band with drummer Greig Stewart (Guillemots), keyboard player and producer Sebastian Reynolds (Solo Collective), guitarist Andrew Warne (Dagga Domes) and bassist Jamie Morris, she launched her debut album, “Always Awake”,…
TWAIN – Days Of Effort And Ease (Self Released, 2020) Scorrendo le scarne note che accompagnano la pubblicazione digitale e su cassetta di “Days Of Effort And Ease”, si intuisce immediatamente la dimensione solitaria e casalinga nella quale Mat Davidson ha registrato le canzoni che formano il suo nuovo lavoro sotto l’alias Twain. I suoni…
[video of the week] David A Jaycock – The Murderous Huntsman
David. A Jaycock announces new album ‘Murder, and the Birds’, out via Triassic Tusk Records on August 24th 2020. ‘Murder, and the Birds’ is a pastoral retelling of lost songs with no lyrics and lyrics with no songs. Mostly. David, an “underground psychedelic freak-ball” and sometime collaborator of Marry Waterson, The Big Eyes Family Players…
JASON MOLINA – Eight Gates (Secretly Canadian, 2020) Anche qualora non si fosse a conoscenza della scomparsa di Jason Molina, avvenuta da ormai sette anni, non si potrebbe fare a meno di cogliere il senso di sofferenza esistenziale sotteso alle canzoni adesso raccolte in “Eight Gates”, pur mitigato dalla sempre ispirata poetica del songwriter di…
[streaming] FOONYAP – Free and Easy Wandering
In a time of social isolation and uncertainty, one’s physicality may be constrained, but awareness remains free. This discovery of letting go and embracing the present is explored in FOONYAP’s latest single ‘Free And Easy Wandering’, the title of which was taken from a visual and performance art series at Mile Zero Dance (Edmonton, AB,…
[streaming] Raveloe – Abalone
Raveloe is the somewhat mysterious project of Glasgow-based songwriter, Kim Grant. Recording from the bedroom of their flat, Kim has recorded a new EP, with the help of friends from locations as diverse as Derby, Dumfries and Melbourne. The record was produced in someways as a response to the difficulties 2020 has thrown at us…
[video of the week] Julius Way – One
Taken from the upcoming album “The Husk”, out late August 2020, and released as part of the single “How Long / One”, available via https://juliusway.bandcamp.com/album/how-long-one. Julius Way is the songwriting project by Matthew Adams. It began while busking up in Aberdeen. Since then his recording locations have included a derelict ex-home for the blind with an…
COLORAMA – Chaos Wonderland (Banana & Louie, 2020)* Non conosce pause il genio instancabile di Carwyn Ellis, reduce da appena un anno dalla riuscita ibridazione gaelico-brasiliana di “Joia!” e adesso di nuovo in pista per il settimo album dei suoi Colorama. In realtà, vista la sua attitudine a esperienze artistiche sempre nuove, che l’ha condotto…
[streaming] Sam Moss – Morning Light
New digital single by Sam Moss. All proceeds from this track will go to the Urban Farming Institute of Boston – urbanfarminginstitute.org Sam Moss is a songwriter and instrumentalist based in New England. His 2018 album Neon was acclaimed by NPR and The Boston Globe. Since 2014 he has been on the road playing hundreds…
[streaming] Alexia Avina – Fit Into
A brand-new signing to Lost Map Records, Alexia Avina is an American singer-songwriter previously based in Montreal, now living in rural Massachusetts, whose heavenly music is rooted in ambient, folk and dreampop traditions. Alexia’s new single ‘Fit Into’ is part of Lost Map’s PostMap Club subscription service. It captures much about what makes her so…
[video of the week] Campbell Sibthorpe – Dandelion
Taken from “Ytown”, the long-awaited EP from London-based folk singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Campbell Sibthorpe, released on 21st July 2020. Following a steady release of singles, the most recent being the praised choral ‘Good Lord’, Ytown ties together these lone stories and gives them the opportunity to expand into a journey that invites. A compelling commute…
[streaming] Joseph Futak – Gone Before
“Gone Before” is the second single taken from “Pigeon Songs”, out September 4th via Fox Food Records. As his previous band was drawing to a close, Joseph began writing for this new project tentatively at first, bringing the songs to the George, Lucy and Lily and working on them in George’s bedroom with a drum…
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