The Craytes release “Union Station” / “On My Way” single on August 21st 2020. The Craytes are a product of 2020’s global pandemic and the resulting months of quarantine. Written by Montreal-based Enzo Palermo, The Craytes’ music is layered in dreamy melancholia. Also known for his work as the original lead singer of indie rock…
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VV.AA. – Avenue With Trees – A Second Language cornucopia + Secondaries (Second Language, 2020) Nel pieno della stagione estiva, torna a manifestarsi l’estetica invero autunnale e nostalgica che impronta le produzioni dell’etichetta Second Language, del resto pienamente speculare all’indole del suo ideatore Glen Johnson. Riecheggiando i tempi in cui un’etichetta costituiva il fulcro di…
SEABUCKTHORN – Other Other (Fluid Audio, 2020) Andy Cartwright compie un ulteriore passo verso la completa trasfigurazione di quelli che in origine erano i suoni delle corde di una chitarra acustica. Nei nove brani di “Other Other”, interamente realizzati attraverso la “preparazione” dello strumento e l’aggiunta di effetti alle vibrazioni prodotte con l’archetto, l’artista inglese…
[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…
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…
[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…
[streaming] Dig Nitty – Palm Springs
Taken from “Reverse of Mastery”, out September 18th 2020. Many of Dig Nitty’s songs were written while Erin McGrath was working as a national park ranger, surveilling birds at the beach in the Rockaways. “Walking in a straight line while monitoring birds would free up my brain and melodies would float in,” she reflects. The…
SEA GLASS – Shifts (Where It’s At Is Where You Are, 2020)* La costellazione di artisti e di spunti stilistici gradualmente costruita da Matt Ashton intorno al collettivo aperto The Leaf Library si arricchisce di una nuova, preziosa combinazione di elementi. Nel duo Sea Glass l’eclettico songwriter e compositore inglese è affiancato dalle ovattate parti…
[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,…
DMITRY EVGRAFOV – Surrender (130701 / Fat Cat, 2020) Nel volgere di una manciata di dischi, Dmitry Evgrafov si è agilmente affrancato dai canoni del minimalismo neoclassico, come già dimostrato nel precedente “Comprehension Of Light” (2017). “Surrender” costituisce un passo in avanti ancor più deciso dell’artista russo verso una dimensione di compositore moderno, capace di…
[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…
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…
YAIR ETZIONY – We Were Here Before, We Will Be Here After (Seasides On Postcards, 2020) Fin dai loop granulosi e dalle pulsazioni che ne scandiscono l’incipit “Nothern Home” appare inevitabile pensare alle architetture inerti e ai ritmi vitali della metropoli e in particolare della città europea che più di altre incarna le contrastanti pulsioni…
[streaming] Tristan Welch – Chromesthesia 11
Taken from “Chromesthesia Chronicles”, out August 7th 2020. Taken as a complete object, Tristan Welch’s Chromesthesia Chronicles is a 12 page booklet of songs inspired by Steve Loya’s paintings or paintings based on Tristan Welch’s songs. In this collaborative push/pull between Welch’s aching, drone-heavy guitar work and Loya’s bold and expressive visual art, the two…
CV & JAB – Landscape Architecture (Editions Basilic, 2020) Come già nella precedente occasione collaborativa (“Thoughts Of A Dot As It Travels A Surface”, 2018), Christina Vantzou e John Also Bennett traggono ispirazione dalle riflessioni su forma e rappresentazione dell’artista multidisciplinare francese Zin Taylor. Ancora una volta, i due musicisti dispiegano i loro suoni nello…
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