Laurie Anderson Gets Knight Written
Knight Writers, the student news site of Robinson High School in Tampa, FL, recently reviewed the new Laurie Anderson LP. “The sound and feel of the album cannot be conveyed over text,” reviewer Winter Carbajal contends. “Amelia is a melancholic, disturbing rendition of what was a hazy event to begin with; this is easily Anderson’s most unnerving, artistically moving […]
Binnie Klein, aka In These Trees, Discusses Collaboration With Americana Highways
The Quiver, from In These Trees and Tartie, is a truly collaborative effort. We’ve mentioned several times that the album was born out of the creative synergy between radio host Binnie Klein, and Tartie, an Australian musician who initially connected with Klein while reaching out for airplay. In a recent interview with Americana Highways, Klein talks about […]
Laurie Anderson’s New LP Is “Unexpectedly Soothing,” Writes The Quietus
The Quietus is effusive about the new album from Laurie Anderson, which is based on the flight journals of Amelia Earhart. “Anderson wrangles the joy of discovery and achievement in a balance with the foreboding of an ending we already know,” the site writes. “String arrangements are the primary medium of Amelia, on a spectrum from Anderson’s solo viola […]
Binnie Klein (In These Trees) Gets In Depth With Stereo Embers
Alex Green of The Stereo Embers Podcast has an interesting conversation with Binnie Klein, also known as In These Trees, who has a career as a psychotherapist and a background as a writer of boxing history. With Australian musician Tartie and the producer David Baron, Klein crafted the LP The Quiver that is currently at radio. It recently got a strong review on Stereo Embers’ Dave Cantrell, […]
New Music From War Strings
Die By Light, War Strings’ fourth album, is a collection of pop excursions, skewed by Andrew Stogel’s reserved delivery and eerie arrangements. It’s an unsettled picture of searching for intimacy. Uncertainty, captured through polar opposite entries; elated and despairing, wavering then devoted. Fast fluttery tempos, angelic string lines and a dreary sheen help to blur intense sentiments that […]
Gold Flake Paint Draws Attention To the “Gleaming” New Single From the innocence mission
About the innocence mission, Gold Flake Paint writes, “What I like to think is that they make these perfect songs in perfect harmony, in their own time and space, then retreat to nature, to tend to a garden, to watch the world grow around them before quietly wandering back into modernity to release whatever it is they’ve been […]
FLOOD Digs The “Relatable Yet Unusual World” Of Laurie Anderson’s Amelia
“Laurie Anderson works with an immense, colorful palate on her new LP Amelia—one radically different from her more confined and intimate projects,” writes FLOOD in its new review of the LP, out now via Nonesuch. According to FLOOD, “Anderson—a true master of FX-driven suspense and verbal disguise—filters hard fact and flighty perspective into one tight, 35-minute audio-verité package, knitting together […]
The Ladies Of… Drop “Dead Naming” Video
The Ladies Of… have a new video, and it’s dangerous. “Dead Naming In Your Gold Voice” has a rattlesnake, lots of cash, and lots of fire. The track is from Coming Out Of Our Tenderness, which is at radio now. Offbeat Magazine says it “hits the sweet spot between lovingly-crafted throwback and exuberant sleaze.” See the new video here. See […]
New Music From Masok
Masok is a four-piece future soul band based in Tel Aviv and comprised of Jenny Penkin, Noam Havkin, Tal Kohavi, and Omri Shani. Taking the front, Penkin is a singer-songwriter whose range goes between R&B, soul, and Hip-Hop and her warm voice and smooth phrases bring a fresh color. Accompanying her is Havkin, who’s in charge of production and […]
Clash Praises Laurie Anderson’s “Towering” New Album
“In Laurie Anderson’s hands,” Clash Magazine writes, “we come closer to understanding what possesses people through history to reach for outsized achievements, through the accomplishment of one of her own. Amelia is this a towering work of artistic endeavour and creative genius which comfortably ranks as one of Anderson’s most definitive statements yet.” The site has a […]
Leif Vollebekk Announces US Tour
Leif Vollebekk, whose new album Revelation is out later this month, has scheduled some US tour dates. This will be the first time Vollebekk has been down to the US for shows in a while, and it follows a trip to Europe. Singles “Peace Of Mind (Evening),” “Moondog,” and “Southern Star” are at radio now from Secret […]
Laurie Anderson Talks To The New York Times
The “eternally innovative” Laurie Anderson was recently interviewed by Jon Pareles of The New York Times, who says Anderson’s new album Amelia is like a “vintage radio drama crossed with an oratorio — or maybe it’s an orchestral podcast.” The album is at radio now from Nonesuch Records and is going for NACC debuts this week. Hear the NYT interview here.
Americana Highways Checks Out In These Trees & Tartie
Americana Highways recently checked out The Quiver, by In These Trees & Tartie. “This is like the thinking man’s ABBA laid out in a storyline album. The two female voices on this debut are absorbing & nebulous & characterized by their colorful mainstream catchy melodies… [the LP is] smooth & relaxing throughout the set. Yet, nothing is silly, pompous, or […]
New Music From Leif Vollebekk
Canadian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Leif Vollebekk has revealed “Peace of Mind (Evening)” a memorable and melodious single co-produced and mixed by David Baron (The Lumineers, Shawn Mendes, Michael Marcagi). A version of the song will appear on the new album, Revelation, out September 27 via Secret City Records. Vollebekk has also announced his first US. tour dates in support of the […]
Pitchfork Says Laurie Anderson Creates “Awestruck Wonder” On New LP Amelia
According to Pitchfork, Laurie Anderson‘s new album Amelia is “filled with moments of awestruck wonder…. Like 2018’s Landfall—a rumination on the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in collaboration with the Kronos Quartet—Amelia pairs Anderson’s hypnotic style of vocalizing with a contemporary classical ensemble (Filharmonie Brno, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies). But Amelia, despite its tragic final act, is a lighter and livelier reflection: a […]
New Music From Greg Lisher (Camper Van Beethoven/Monks of Doom)
Independent Project Records and Greg Lisher (Camper Van Beethoven/Monks of Doom) have announced a 12-track instrumental electronic album, Underwater Detection Method, due on October 25, 2024. The first single from the album is “Finding the Future.” Underwater Detection Method is a thing of firsts. While Lisher is a familiar face to fans of made-in-California alternative rock (thanks to his […]
The Needle Drops On the innocence mission’s New Track
The Needle Drop has a quote from the innocence mission’s Karen Peris about the band’s new single “This Thread Is A Green Street.” The track is at radio now and will open the band’s forthcoming new album, due in November. Karen says, “A sort of envisioning the landscape as a world of doorways, that might allow us to […]
Laurie Anderson “Soars” On New LP, Writes Spin
SPIN recently reviewed Amelia, the new album from Laurie Anderson that’s at radio now via Nonesuch Records. “Backed by the Czech orchestra Filharmonie Brno and featuring guests such as Anohni, Marc Ribot, and Rob Moose,” the magazine writes, “Amelia veers from serenity to ominous chaos as the story unspools. Told in a series of imagined entries derived from Amelia Earhart’s diaries and telegrams—as well as […]
New Music From the innocence mission
The first studio album from the innocence mission in four years, Midwinter Swimmers (due November 29, 2024) sounds immediately like an old friend. At the same time, it’s a new kind of adventure for the beloved Pennsylvania band of high school friends Karen Peris, Don Peris, and Mike Bitts, having both an expansive, cinematic quality and the strange, lo-fi beauty […]
Hilary Seabrook Reviews In These Trees & Tartie
Writer, podcaster, and musician Hilary Seabrook is out with e review of The Quiver by In These Trees & Tartie, which she describes as “deeply poetic and soul-searching… The Quiver delivers engaging music to enjoy and maybe even bring the need to dance into your life… Each track… tells a different but linked story, exploring themes of memory, love, heartbreak, ecological grief […]
