New single by Rosie Caldecott, taken from upcoming EP “The Lost Gardens”. A singer, songwriter and artist from Oxford, Rosie Caldecott is known for the dreaminess of her soundscapes, the wistfulness of her lyrics, and the warmth of her voice. Her successfully crowdfunded debut LP, “Inside Out” (2015) will be followed by her second crowdfunded…
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HALEY HEYNDERICKX & MAX GARCÍA CONOVER – Among Horses III (Son Canciones, 2018) Il sole, la campagna mediterranea, i suoi frutti e, soprattutto, i cavalli: è un’ambientazione che è ormai un’abitudine per far incontrare artisti provenienti da lontano e far scoccare in loro la scintilla dell’ispirazione. I due protagonisti del terzo episodio della serie “Among…
[video of the week] Sara Forslund – Hard
Taken from Sara Forslund’s new album, “Summer is like a swallow”, out 9th of November on LP and digital platforms via Kaip Records. Sara Forslund (1981) was born in a small village called Borgvattnet in the northern part of Sweden. Borgvattnet is known for its haunted vicarage. At that time, Sara’s father Tore Forslund was…
QUEEN OF THE MEADOW – A Room To Store Happiness (Tiny Room, 2018)* Per Helen Ferguson, scrivere canzoni vuol dire avere qualcosa da raccontare. È probabilmente per questo che il suo debutto sotto l’alias Queen Of The Meadow, il delizioso “Aligned With Juniper” (2016), è giunto soltanto alla soglia dei trent’anni; ed è lo stesso…
[streaming] Small Feet – A Little More Dead In The Nerves
“A Little More Dead In The Nerves”, released October 5th, is Small Feet’s second single since the release of their critically acclaimed debut album “From Far Enough Away Everything Sounds Like The Ocean”. Without pretension, Stockholm’s Simon Stålhamre, the gentleman behind Small Feet, covers huge swaths of emotional and intellectual ground as casually as if…
ALEXANDER TUCKER – Don’t Look Away (Thrill Jockey, 2018) Sembrano ben distanti i tempi in cui la cifra espressiva di Alexander Tucker era essenzialmente costituita da oscure manipolazioni di suoni acustici. Se già da un paio di dischi a questa parte (“Dorwytch”, 2011, e “Third Mouth”, 2012), il chitarrista inglese aveva approcciato con successo strutture di…
[video of the week] J Mascis – See You At The Movies
Taken from “Elastic Days” (Release Date: November 9th 2018 via Sub Pop Records). Near the end of Reagan’s first term, the Western Massachusetts Hardcore scene coughed up an insanely shaped chunk called Dinosaur. Comprised of WMHC vets, the trio was a miasmic tornado of guitar noise, bad attitude and near-subliminal pop-based-shape-shifting. Through their existence, Dinosaur…
MARISSA NADLER – For My Crimes (Sacred Bones, 2018) Rispettando quasi alla perfezione la cadenza biennale dei suoi lavori (otto in circa quindici anni), Marissa Nadler racchiude in “For My Crimes” un nuovo saggio dell’evocativo fascino delle sue interpretazioni, che nell’occasione si rivestono di tratti maggiormente decisi, in coerenza con un contesto sonoro non più…
[streaming] PERIO – Exotic Thrill
Since “Icy Morning in Paris”, the first PERIO album, released by Lithium in 1994, Eric Deleporte has followed his own drumbeat: four albums between 1994 and 2015. Given the powerfully evocative nature of the songs as well as the precision of the writing, each release has been worth the wait. Since his last album 30…
LINDSAY CLARK – Crystalline (Oscarson, 2018) L’ormai consolidato legame tra l’etichetta tedesca Oscarson e la “capitale folk” statunitense Portland non cessa di produrre ottimi frutti. È ancora dalla città dell’Oregon che proviene infatti Lindsay Clark, artista originaria di Nevada City (come Alela Diane e Johanna Newsom…) e già autrice di tre album, a partire da…
[streaming] Grand Salvo – In The Water
“In The Water” is the first glimpse at “Sea Glass”, the eagerly awaited new album from esteemed Melbourne artist Grand Salvo. “Sea Glass” is out November 2nd on Mistletone. The first excerpt from “Sea Glass” is a baroque-folk rumination on memory, loss, the passing of time and death: “Oh say you love me before I…
[streaming] Maria Kelly – June
Critically acclaimed Irish artist Maria Kelly continues to captivate with new single, “June”, out now via Veta Records. “June” is the first single taken from “Notes To Self”, a collection of songs diarising Maria’s move from Dublin to Berlin. Maria was suddenly faced with that well-known discomfort of starting over in a new city. The…
[streaming] Darci Phenix – Paper Boat
Taken from “Juniper Street”, out October 5th on Team Love Records. 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 artists has…
JAKE NICOLL – Stone Arch (Self Released, 2018) È opinione diffusa – e almeno in parte fondata – che la ritrovata attenzione posta sui linguaggi del folk non conduca a qualcosa di radicalmente nuovo, ma è anche vero che ogni lavoro a grandi linee inscritto nel loro paradigma reca con sé la personalità, la voce…
[streaming] Haley Heynderickx & Max García Conover – Slow Talkin’
An organic farm in the middle of nowhere in Spain. Dry wind through dry leaves. Dogs sleeping a siesta in the sun. Rain that never comes. And horses. Always horses. This is wherethe critically acclaimed singer-songwriters Haley Heynderickx (Portland, Oregon) and Max García Conover (Portland, Maine) have been dropped off , along with a bunch of…
DAKOTA SUITE, DAG ROSENQVIST AND EMANUELE ERRANTE – What Matters Most (Karaoke Kalk, 2018)* La condivisione delle sensazioni e degli affetti più personali è ormai da tempo pratica ricorrente per Chris Hooson, che non manca di dischiudere l’intimità della propria ispirazione di scrittura e composizione ad altri musicisti che ne amplifichino il già pronunciato contenuto…
[streaming] Nighttime – Lamb’s Ear
Taken from “Hands In The Dark”, the new album by Nighttime, releases October 13th 2018. Nighttime is the haunting and ethereal folk of Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist Eva Louise Goodman. Layers of guitar, violin, ambient noise, and voice craft a dense yet elegant soundscape suspended somewhere between the droning lull of Grouper and the gauzy melodic pop…
[streaming] Rivulets – Everything Goes
Rivulets “Everything Goes”, taken from the upcoming album “In Our Circle”, out on Talitres, Oct. 19th, 2018. To simply categorize the music of Rivulets as spare or desolate is to unjustly deny it the hot blood sizzling through its very veins. Sure, on the band’s 6th album “In Our Circle”, there are prairies of space…
[streaming] David Allred – The Garden
Following on from last year’s collaborative release “Find The Ways” with Peter Broderick, the Californian singer and multi-instrumentalist David Allred returns with a first solo album on Erased Tapes out November 2nd, titled “The Transition”. Hailing from Loomis, a small town outside of Sacramento, via Portland, Oregon – David worked as a sound engineer and…
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