Taken from “In Free Fall”, out on January 28th 2022 via Thrill Jockey. Video directed by Pedro Maia. Berlin-based composer and sound artist Maya Shenfeld’s music draws from both a classical tradition and experimental electronic techniques, blurring the boundaries between digital synthesis and organic sounds. This contrasting approach is shared with filmmaker Pedro Maia, whose…
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[video of the week] Ptarmigan – Rounder
Toronto, ON indie-folk band Ptarmigan shares their striking new music video and single “Rounder”. The second single from the band’s third album Cocoon (set for release November 19) begins with atmospheric drones and grounding fingerpicked banjo. Haunting vocals then appear, ushering in a chorus of lush three-part harmonies and rich nylon string guitar strums. The…
[video of the week] Eve Adams – La Ronde
Taken from “Metal Bird”, out January 14,th2022 via Basin Rock. Eve Adams offers solace within life’s shadows. Un-numbing senses with anthems of surrender and tender-hearted tales that tingle with Californian folk-noir, her album Metal Bird takes flight with the turbulence and romance of Hollywood’s golden age, and meditates on the mysteries of love, death, insecurity…
[video of the week] Martin Callingham – Bedding In
Taken from the album “Patterns”, out November 19th 2021. “Bedding In” is an intriguing melancholic single with haunting harmonies and solemn organs weaving around Callingham’s distinctive hushed vocal sound. Recalling Iron And Wine or perhaps William Fitzsimmons, “Bedding In” is folk music that goes deeply into occult indie and psychedelic territories, its icy darkness perfect…
[video of the week] Bubble Tea and Cigarettes – Liz
Fourth single by Bubble Tea and Cigarettes, out now via Elefant Records. Bubble Tea and Cigarettes was founded in New York City where the two members Andi and Kat met. Starting in 2019, the project took shape in the couple’s bedroom where they record and produce their songs. Their dreamy ballads take the audience on an…
[video of the week] Kælan Mikla – Hvítir Sandar (feat. Alcest)
Kælan Mikla’s new single “Hvítir Sandar” is a collaboration with French post-metal pioneers Alcest. Video directed by Máni Sigfússon; director of photography Blair Alexander Massie “Hvítir Sandar” appears on Kælan Mikla’s forthcoming “Undir Köldum Norðumljósum”, the fourth album by the Icelandic band, set for an October 15th release on Artoffact Records. Kælan Mikla gives this statement…
[video of the week] Good Shepherd – Sunday Morning Son
Taken from “Let’s See What the East Wind Brings”, out now via Rusted Rail. Good Shepherd speaks: “Back before accessible laptop recording, for me a digital 8 track was a revelation. It seemed a long series of experiments and research to find out how to record with any clarity at all. Working out what kinds…
[video of the week] Ana Egge – Be Your Drug
“Be Your Drug” by Ana Egge, taken from the album ‘Between Us’, out now via StorySound Records. Ana Egge grabbed hold of her life as a musician early on — as a teenager, she built her own guitar and moved to Austin, TX to observe, absorb and take risks. The striking depth and unusual maturity…
[video of the week] Devin Hoff – Go Your Way (with Sharon Van Etten)
“Go Your Way” is the second single from Devin Hoff’s album, “Voices From the Empty Moor (Songs of Anne Briggs)”, coming November 12th 2021 via Kill Rock Stars. Devin Hoff has been intensively studying the music of Anne Briggs for over a decade, transcribing, practicing, arranging and performing songs from her limited recorded output. Briggs…
[video of the week] Pleine Lvne – But The Sun
Taken from “Heavy Heart” debut album, out on October 22nd 2021. After many projects with bands, the musician based in Lyon (France) Nicolas Gasparotto – former member of Fallaster (Emo/Post Hardcore) and Medusa in my knickers (Black Wave) – puts aside the screams and distortions of Metal/Hardcore to elaborate a very personal post-folk album, conceived…
[video of the week] Pascal Babare – My Heart
“My Heart” is from Pascal Babare’s 4th solo LP “Cave Without A Name” , which releases on the 17th of September 2021 on Oscarson. “My Heart” is one of Babare’s first true love songs – reminiscent of early Leonard Cohen, and with just his voice and guitar, it’s a stripped back and intimate conclusion to…
[video of the week] Marta Del Grandi – Amethyst
‘Amethyst’ is the first single from Marta Del Grandi’s new album, ‘Until We Fossilize’, out 5th November via Fire Records. In the Greek myth the beautiful maiden Amethyst, pursued and chased by the god of wine Bacchus, prays to the goddess of the hunt, Diana, to protect her from him and turn her into stone….
[video of the week] Desert Liminal – Rainbow Sherbet Sky
Taken from Desert Liminal’s album “Glass Fate”, out on Whited Sepulchre Records in November 2021. “I don’t need no southbound highway sign to tell me HELL IS REAL”. This opening line from the debut single “New Tongue” launches us into the sophomore album Glass Fate by the Chicago based Desert Liminal. Glass Fate takes us through a Lost…
[video of the week] Le Ren – Dyan
“Dyan” the new song by Le Ren from the album ‘Leftovers’, out October 15th on Secretly Canadian. Leftovers, the debut album from Montreal’s (/Tiohtià:ke’s) Le Ren, stitches together a patchwork of personal songs about different relationships: those we share with mothers, lovers, and friends. Lauren Spear, the artist behind Le Ren, created a physical quilt…
[video of the week] Hand Habits – Aquamarine
Taken from “Fun House”, out Oct 22nd 2021 via Saddle Creek. Hand Habits, the project of Los Angeles-based musician Meg Duffy (they/them), is back with their new album Fun House – the most ambitious Hand Habits album to date. Produced by Sasami Ashworth (SASAMI) and engineered by Kyle Thomas (King Tuff), the record was not…
[video of the week] Josienne Clarke – A Letter On A Page
‘A Letter On A Page’ by Josienne Clarke is from her album ‘A Small Unknowable Thing’, released on Corduroy Punk Records on 13th August 2021. Says Josienne of the song: “I wasn’t sure if I’d ever play music again when I wrote this, I was so unhappy with my current situation, I needed to take…
[video of the week] DG Solaris & Jeremy Tuplin – Ocean/Are You Weird Enough?
Daniel Green (DG Solaris) about the track: “Back in the innocent summer of 2019, Jeremy Tuplin appeared to me in an hallucinogenic dream, floating high above a raging sea. I emailed him the next day to share this vision, and the man took it in his stride. We soon decided to write some songs together…
[video of the week] Macie Stewart – Finally
From the forthcoming debut album by by Chicago-based singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, “Mouth Full of Glass” out September 24th on Orindal Records. Video directed and Edited by Lia Kohl. Written and recorded while finding solace and strength in solitude, “Mouth Full of Glass” features eight lushly arranged songs that search for the meaning of self…
[video of the week] Ducks Ltd. – 18 Cigarettes
“18 Cigarettes” is taken from Ducks Ltd.’s forthcoming album, “Modern Fiction”, out on Carpark Records / Royal Mountain Records on October 1st, 2021. Video directed by Ali Vanderkruyk. Toronto’s Ducks Ltd. (formerly Ducks Unlimited), the bright jangle-pop duo of Tom McGreevy (lead vocal, guitar, bass, keyboards) and Evan Lewis (guitar, bass, drum programming), accomplish the…
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