Glamglare Features Natalie Walker’s “Starry Eyed Kids”
Glamglare chose Natalie Walker’s “Starry Eyed Kids,” from her new Evenfall EP, as their Song Pick of the Day on November 15. The record comes 13 years after her first release Urban Angel, and according to Glamglare cofounder Oliver Bouchard it, “demonstrates how forward-looking her blend of acoustic and electronic music had already been back then.” “Starry Eyed Kids” […]
Samantha Sidley Goes For Adds
Released earlier this year, Samantha Sidley’s jazz-oriented Interior Person sounds, she says, “exactly like what I needed it to sound – like the old records I grew up on, mixed with now and the future.” Now, she returns with a horn-saturated, marching cover of a Ry Cooder track that demonstrates her power as a vocalist […]
Post Trash Says Lost Wisdom Pt. 2 Is Brilliant In Its Introspection, And Mount Eerie Has Highest Debut At NACC
“Lost Wisdom pt. 2’s brilliance,” writes Post Trash of the new LP from Mount Eerie with Julie Doiron, “lies in its introspection. Phil Elverum’s examination of love is tinged with solipsism, painting a picture of a man struggling with the ineffability of his everyday life. What ultimately bursts from this struggle is a gorgeous work of poetry set […]
PopMatters Highly Rates The “Skillful, Rootsy” Good Ones
According to PopMatters, The Good Ones keep “rural styles of Rwanda alive and subtly vibrant on Rwanda, You Should Be Loved. Skillful, rootsy, and laying bare the group’s strong interpretations of environs and emotions, this is an album that lends itself well to sensitive audiences of all sorts and is well worth listening to, feeling, and loving.” The site […]
Sunny War Plays NPR Tiny Desk Concert
Sunny War recently performed songs from her latest album Shell of a Girl on NPR‘s Tiny Desk. Host Bob Boilen praises the “heavy-hearted singer,” saying she “has been homeless, busked on city streets and Venice Beach, left home feeling she was a burden to her distraught mother, had her life complicated by drugs, and yet still found a way to […]
Leif Vollebekk Tells When The Horn Blows About New Ways and Rihanna
“Leif Vollebekk’s latest album New Ways is the true sound of desire as it unfolds,” writes When The Horn Blows, “hitting the spot when it comes to tenderness, violence, sex and rebirth.” The site has an interview with the Montréal-based singer-songwriter, who talked about a handful of the album’s tracks and how they came about. It’s especially interesting […]
Americana UK Says Up On High Is “A Big Step For Vetiver”
Americana UK has an approving review of the new Vetiver LP, Up On High, which has been released in the UK by the Loose Music imprint (in the US, it’s out via Mama Bird). Writes the site, “Whereas previous albums have been in comparison uneven, ‘Up On High’ delivers consistency. And, happily, it is a consistency of very high quality […]
KUTX Posts Devendra Banhart Performance
We told you recently about Devendra Banhart‘s live performance on Austin’s KUTX. Now the station has uploaded video from the whole set to their website. The archived version is longer and more involved than the broadcast one, so be sure to check it out even if you heard it on the air. Enjoy the performance, […]
Picking Up Rocks Compares Alex Bloom To Alice In Chains and Local H
Picking Up Rocks has a stream of Alex Bloom‘s “Cigarette,” which the site describes as “an absolutely insidious earworm that had it existed in 1995 would have played in a non-stop loop on MTV. It sounds like the wayward child of Alice in Chains’ ‘Heaven Beside You’ and Local H’s ‘Bound For The Floor’ and […]
Rolling Stone Praises The “Stunning” New Mount Eerie Record
Rolling Stone lauds the new record from Mount Eerie with Julie Doiron as being “delicately powerful.” According to the venerable magazine, the record finds Mount Eerie’s Phil Elverum “meditating on grief and grace with poignancy,” while “Elverum and Doiron work together with an intimacy that conveys a lifetime of collaboration and creation.” Read the whole […]
AQVOL Goes for Adds
AQVOL is the moniker of Justin Marshall, a singer, songwriter and producer from Broward County, Florida who fuses candid hip-hop, meditative R&B and timeless indie rock influences to create thoughtful, introspective narratives with uncanny, melodic infectiousness. Marshall grew up surrounded by music by artists like Led Zeppelin, Rush, and Hank Wiliams, Jr., but as a […]
Yorkston/Thorne/Khan Go For Adds
Yorkston/Thorne/Khan – the trio of James Yorkston (guitar, nyckelharpa, vocals), Jon Thorne (double bass, vocals) and Suhail Yusuf Khan (sarangi, vocals) – is pleased to announce their new album Navarasa: Nine Emotions will be released on January 24, 2020. At the heart of the record is the Indian subcontinent’s navarasa — the nine (nava) emotions […]
The AV Club Recommends Mount Eerie With Julie Doiron
The AV Club chose Lost Wisdom pt. 2, the new release from Mount Eerie, as one of “Five New Releases We Love” in a recent feature. The record takes on some difficult subject matter, and The AV Club contends that “it’s far from easy listening. To make it go down smoother, Elverum recruited his old […]
Afropunk Applauds The Emotional Content Of The Good Ones’ New Record
Afropunk writes that the new LP from Rwanda’s The Good Ones is “honest and unflinching, yet hopeful.” Titled Rwanda, You Should Be Loved, the LP was recorded in Africa and features contributions from Wilco’s Nels Cline, TV On The Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe, Sleater-Kinney’s Corin Tucker, My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields, and Fugazi’s Joe Lally. As Afropunk […]
The Skinny Says Up On High Is Vetiver’s Best LP
“For their seventh album,” The Skinny writes, “Vetiver marry the folkier roots of their earlier records (2004’s Vetiver; 2006’s To Find Me Gone) with the shinier pop noise we heard on 2015 gem, Complete Strangers.” The result? According to the site, this LP is “the best album of Vetiver’s career. Provided we all agree that […]
Gigwise Praises The Startling, Intimate New LP From Leif Vollebekk
“Leif Vollebekk’s New Ways is a startling, intimate record that delves deep into the musician’s world.” This is according to Gigwise, which has a positively glowing review of the new LP. “With each carefully measured song,” the site writes, Vollebekk “lays out everything you dislike in the world and repackages it in ways that make […]
Bootstraps Shares Some Demo Love With a Left Bank Mix
The new Bootstraps LP is called Demo Love because band mastermind Jordan Beckett is fascinated by what he describes as “the dichotomy of the word ‘Demo,’ which can mean to demonstrate or to demolish.” According to Beckett, “Getting ‘demo love’ is also a music expression where you can’t let go of a song’s original version […]
Pitchfork Goes Deep With Mount Eerie
Fans of Mount Eerie will want to dive into Pitchfork‘s new interview with Phil Elverum, conducted to promote his new Lost Wisdom pt. 2 album with Julie Doiron. According to Elverum, the new LP is “definitely a step back into poetry and away from memoir. That’s partially just how it came out. A lot of […]
The BBC Features The Good Ones, Who Have The #1 Most-Added World Album At NACC
Thanks to all the stations that had The Good Ones on your NACC World ADDS charts this week: CJLO 1690 am, KFAI 90.3 fm, KGLT 91.9 fm, KMUD 91.1 fm, KRKQ 95.5 fm, WCSF 88.7 fm, WNMC 90.7 fm, WRIR 97.3 fm, and WWUH 91.3 fm. Rwanda, You Should Be Loved was the most-added album […]
PopMatters Compares Vetiver To A First Kiss
About the new Vetiver album Up On High, Popmatters writes that it is “good humor which makes the music so charming. The ease by which Andy Cabic conveys his ruminations implies he is talking to himself, but we are all in on the joke. He’s persuasive by not trying to persuade. Vetiver offers a teasing mischievousness […]
