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…
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[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…
[streaming] Rachel Angel – Strapped
Rachel Angel is a singer, poetess, and guitar rocker. After living in NYC and out west, Rachel Angel returns to Miami with her crisp and poetic brand of songwriting; rare and refreshing in the barren heat of South Florida. Straddling the elusive line between folk and country, Angel’s songs take you through the muck of pain…
[streaming] Mute Swimmer – Matador
Title track of the three tracks digital single “Matador”, out July 24th. Guy Dale is an artist, performer and lecturer utilising a diverse range of media, skills and approaches including painting, drawing, photography, installation, sound, performance and film. He has exhibited widely on an international stage including shows in London, Berlin, Lisbon, New York, Madrid…
[video of the week] Dana Gavanski – At Last I Am Free
Taken from the forthcoming “Wind Songs” EP. The ethereal tones of Serbian-Canadian musician Dana Gavanski can stir a breeze and destroy like a storm. Following the release of “I Talk To The Wind,” she shares the second single to be taken from her forthcoming “Wind Songs” EP, a collection of covers set for release on…
[streaming] I’m Kingfisher – Pocket Soul
Taken from I’m Kingfisher’s new album The Past Has Begun, out October 9 via Fading Trails Recordings. For his seventh record The Past Has Begun” Thomas Jonsson is going back to his roots. It’s out on October 9th 2020 via Fading Trails Recordings. His last album – Transit, his third under his I’m Kingfisher moniker…
[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…
[video of the week] Bendrix Littleton – Deep Dark South
Bendrix Littleton announced his debut album Deep Dark South (releasing September 25, 2020 with NNA Tapes) and shared a video for the contemplative lead single and title track “Deep Dark South,” which is a compilation of iPhone clips shot around the time of the record’s creation and edited together by Will Taylor (from rock duo…
EKIN FIL – Coda (The Helen Scarsdale Agency, 2020)* Il drone-folk sognante e isolazionista dispensato ormai da anni da parte di Ekin Üzeltüzenci sotto l’alias Ekin Fil non poteva non avere sviluppi cinematici. Reduce da esperienze nel campo delle colonne sonore, l’artista turca torna a realizzare un album vero e proprio, due anni dopo la…
[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…
TJO – Songs For Peacock (Orindal, 2020) Benché non sia inedito, per Tara Jane O’Neil, essere identificata con l’acronimo TJO, è la prima volta in quasi trent’anni di attività che quell’acronimo è riportato non nelle note di copertina ma a designare ufficialmente un suo lavoro. Il motivo è ben presto spiegato e discende da un…
[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…
[video of the week] This Is The Kit – This Is What You Did
Taken from This Is The Kit‘s new album ‘Off Off On’ out October 23rd via Rough Trade. “We were on the same page about a lot of musical ideas, as well as doing things I wouldn’t do musically. It was a lovely mixture of ‘you’re exactly in my brain and exactly at the opposite end…
ALASDAIR ROBERTS – The Songs Of My Boyhood (Drag City, 2020) Prima di diventare il cantore in grado di riportare ai giorni attuali la tradizione folk scozzese, facendola scolorare tra reinterpretazioni e brani originali Alasdair Roberts è stato protagonista della breve avventura del terzetto Appendix Out, con il quale ha realizzato tre album a cavallo…
[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…
BUCK CURRAN – No Love Is Sorrow (Obsolete Recordings, 2020) Da quando si è concluso il sodalizio personale e artistico degli Arborea, Buck Curran ha non solo proseguito il proprio percorso creativo, ma vi ha impresso un’evoluzione significativa, coincisa con il suo trasferimento in Italia e con la progressiva apertura a linguaggi non semplicemente folk….
[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…
JFDR – New Dreams (Krunk, 2020) Avendo intrapreso la creazione musicale da giovanissima, per Jófríður Ákadóttir ogni uscita discografica assume il significato di una nuova pagina di un diario di crescita personale e artistica. Il progressivo mutamento di esperienze e registri espressivi è ben avvertibile nel secondo album sulla lunga distanza sotto l’acronimo JFDR, che…
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