HILARY WOODS – Birthmarks (Sacred Bones, 2020) Protagonista di un debutto dal fascino etereo ed oscuro (“Colt”, 2018), Hilary Woods vi dà seguito con un lavoro concepito nei due anni intercorsi dalla pubblicazione del predecessore, nel corso dei quali ha attraversato le esperienze della gravidanza e della maternità. Proprio al tema della nascita è dedicato,…
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NADIA REID – Out Of My Province (Spacebomb, 2020) Per Nadia Reid “Out Of My Province” è, dal punto di vista tanto sostanziale quanto metaforico, esattamente quello che il suo titolo preannuncia: il lavoro che la conduce fuori dalla consuetudine dei remoti luoghi natali (la regione di Dunedin, sull’isola meridionale della Nuova Zelanda) e al…
[streaming] Monteagle – Tan
From Monteagle’s new EP ‘A Colorful Moth” out May 8th on Fire Talk. Monteagle is the solo moniker of Brooklyn based (Tennessee native) singer songwriter and composer Justin Giles Wilcox. Known primarily for scoring the critically acclaimed short Documentary Twins Days for the New Yorker and for his production and songwriting for the ambient folk…
DELV – Waning (Self Released, 2020) Probabilmente non è affatto un caso che negli ultimi tempi siano soprattutto interpreti femminili a catturare l’attenzione per la loro capacità di offrire personalità a una formula cantautorale che non dissimula le proprie radici folk. Dipenderà dal fatto che le loro voci si prestano maggiormente a soluzioni sonore creative,…
[streaming] RG Lowe – Sorrow
When he co-founded the instrumental band Balmorhea over 10 years ago, Rob Lowe (RG Lowe) had no idea that its introspective instrumental music would be heard by millions of people, or that it would offer the opportunity to travel and perform around the world. After years of success in the world of neo-classical music, Lowe…
[video of the week] Mute Forest – Crater Laugh
“Crater Laugh” is the second single from Mute Forest‘s upcoming album ‘Riderstorm.’ This is his second full length album, and the follow-up to 2016’s ‘Deforestation.’ Video footage was used and modified under CC by 3.0. Taken from Hanna Ueda’s film “Kaidou”. There is a moment early on in ‘Riderstorm’ (releasing April 3rd, 2020 via Lost…
[streaming] Siv Jakobsen – Island
Taken from “A Temporary Soothing”, new album out August 21st 2020 on UOK? Siv Jakobsen sits in her Oslo apartment, waking early in the morning to the semi-light outside the window. The chill wraps around her as she settles to write, and write, and write. Come afternoon, as darkness encloses, she lights flickering candles and…
[streaming] Adeline Hotel – Solid Love
Adeline Hotel–the psych-folk/indie rock project led by guitarist and vocalist Dan Knishkowy–have announced a new album, Solid Love, out May 8 on Whatever’s Clever. The new album follows Away Together, which won praise from The Wild Honey Pie, Various Small Flames, and more, with songs that “radiate with a glowing warmth” (The Grey Estates) like…
ANNA CORDELL – Nobody Knows Us (Self Released, 2020) Al tardivo debutto con l’Ep “These Walls” (2015) segue finalmente il primo album vero e proprio per Anna Cordell, artista di Melbourne che per registrare le undici canzoni di “Nobody Knows Us” si è recata in quel piccolo crogiolo di perle folk che da qualche anno…
[streaming] Brigid Mae Power – On A City Night
Brigid Mae Power first new track from new album ‘Head Above The Water’ out 5th June. Somehow, I feel like I’m prying. A bad detective sniffing out some controversy, some personal romanticism, some neighbourhood gossip. Brigid Mae Power’s songs are like an overheard lament, a scrubbed clean yarn with plenty unravelling in the process. About…
[video of the week] Drab City – Working For The Men
Taken from the debut album “Good Songs for Bad People” out on June 12th on Bella Union Records. A heady air of dislocation envelops Drab City’s debut album, where songs of innocence and experience merge with dub, hip-hop, dream-pop and jazzy soundtrack vibes to intoxicating effect. Drab City are fixated on social alienation, violent revenge,…
MARLA HANSEN – Dust (Karaoke Kalk, 2020)* Dodici anni tra l’album di debutto e il suo seguito sono un periodo tale per cui il profilo dell’artista che realizza il secondo non possa non essersi significativamente trasformato, soprattutto in ragione delle esperienze intercorse in tale lasso temporale. Se ai tempi di “Wedding Day” (2007), il retroterra…
[streaming] Montevale – From Another Place
Taken from the 12″ vinyl/mc release “Figure and Ground”, released March 27th, 2020 via Oscarson Label. Ahlie has been active as a singer for over two decades, having co-founded German Riot-Grrrl band elektrolochmann and Post-Hardcore band Monochrome in the 1990s. Together with Thomas, an academic philosopher and night-time composer, she formed Montevale in the 2000s….
AGNES OBEL – Myopia (Deutsche Grammophon, 2020) La sensibile “donna al piano”, l’interprete raffinata e intensa, la cantautrice neoclassica dalle potenzialità pop: sono queste solo alcune delle vesti possibili indossate da Agnes Obel nel corso di dieci anni di attività e tre album che l’hanno proiettata verso una dimensione decisamente più ampia rispetto a quella…
[streaming] V.V. Lightbody – If It’s Not Me
Chicago’s V.V. Lightbody coined herself as “nap rock”, but she’s the first to admit how much her sound is changing. Make a Shrine or Burn It, her much-anticipated Sophomore LP, comes out May 1st, 2020 on Acrophase Records. V.V. Lightbody (Vivian McConnell from Chicago bands Santah/Grandkids) is playing music that is self-described as nap-rock. Dozing…
[video of the week] Samantha Crain – Garden Dove
Taken from “A Small Death”, out May 1st via Real Kind Records. Samantha Crain is a Choctaw singer, songwriter, poet, producer, and musician from Oklahoma. She is a two-time Native American Music Award winner and winner of an Indigenous Music Award. Her genre spanning discography has been critically acclaimed by media outlets such as Rolling…
DOUGLAS DARE – Milkteeth (Erased Tapes, 2020)* Mai come nel caso di Douglas Dare è vero che le apparenze ingannano. Lo si era capito dai tempi del debutto sulla lunga distanza (“Whelm”, 2014), anzi ancor prima dall’Ep “Seven Hours” (2013), che non si trattava dell’ennesimo compositore dedito al minimalismo pianistico. Mentre il secondo disco “Aforger”…
[streaming] Mariecke Borger – Seven Days
The long-awaited second album of Dutch singer-songwriter, Mariecke Borger, is finally here: March 6th, 2020 “Bright Sky” will be released at VOLKOREN. This well-balanced, intimate, folk pop album – inspired by a trip to Ireland – tells the story of letting go, embracing, and overcoming. The sounds of banjo, fiddle, dobro, pedalsteel, and upright bass,…
YANI MARTINELLI – Astral (Fox Food, 2020) La grande sensibilità della cassette-label inglese Fox Food per le voci femminili (Dana Gavanski, Captain, Cade) offre un pur limitato crisma di ufficialità alla nuova raccolta di canzoni di Yani Martinelli, cantautrice spagnola di nascita venezuelana. Nei suoi lavori, a partire da “Bubble Station” (2012), Yani ha sempre…
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