Midwinter Swimmers is the innocence mission’s “Most Present” Album Yet, Writes Spectrum Culture
According to Spectrum Culture, the innocence mission‘s new album Midwinter Swimmers “is their most present yet… Naturalistic imagery paints vibrant strokes across the album’s 39 minutes, another immersive blurring of the lines between songs… The Innocence Mission’s thirteenth album is a quaint and embracing experience, instruments and poetry ebbing and flowing like a gentle tide.” The review can be found here. Midwinter […]
Sun Atoms Shares Video With Blood Makes Noise
Blood Makes Noise has coverage of “Take This Love,” by Sun Atoms. The track, writes the site, “is a deep dive into introspective lyrics, captured during a late-night recording session at Joshua Tree Recording Studios. The song’s lyrics explore themes of love and self-discovery, highlighted by the line ‘take this love and shove it up your heart.’ […]
Leif Vollebekk Goes Live and Direct With WYEP
In a recent interview with Pittsburgh’s WYEP, Leif Vollebekk explains that the vocals on his new album Revelation are “all one takes. No, that one was… yeah, that was… I mean, the one taken then told us that we’d redo it, like, a few months later if I wanted another take. But I like to record live with the […]
No Workhorse Marvels At The “Exceptional Finesse” the innocence mission Displays On New LP Midwinter Swimmers
About the innocence mission, No Workhorse writes, “Both celebrated and under-appreciated, their other-worldly, meditative folk music always contains an undercurrent of comfort. They don’t often change what they do but manage to stay true to their distinctive sound without ever feeling stale.” According to the site, new album Midwinter Swimmers – at radio now – is “a rich, subtly textured record, […]
The Big Takeover Shares Springhouse Details
The Big Takeover has the premiere of Springhouse‘s “Moving Van” video, as well as details on the upcoming deluxe reissue of the band’s album From Now To OK. According to the site, “All physical formats will be presented in a beautiful package from designer Bruce Licher. The new LP edition will be made available on black vinyl as […]
New Release From Denise LaSalle
Detroit’s legendary Westbound Records has teamed with vinyl specialist label Org Music to re-launch with a series of remastered, celebrated funk and soul albums. The series kicked off with Ohio Players’ landmark 1973 release, Pleasure, followed by The Counts’ What’s Up Front That-Counts, Assemblage’s Album, Dennis Coffey Finger Pickin’ Good, and two by Eramus Hall—the new rarities LP Lost and Found, and Your Love Is My Desire, one of the most […]
The Alternate Root Cheers The “Sheer Beauty” of the innocence mission’s New LP
The Alternate Root has a review of the new album from the innocence mission and writes that Midwinter Swimmers “offers series of songs best suited for the morning after rather than the revelry of a festive night before. Nevertheless, the sheer beauty of the proceedings offers a unique luster that’s quietly comforting and consistently affecting as well.” Read the full […]
The Current Shares Vollebekk Pics
The Current has photos from Leif Vollebekk’s MicroShow for The Current at Steady Pour restaurant and bar in Minneapolis last Friday, January 17. Check out the full gallery here! Vollebekk is currently supporting his new album Revelation, which is at radio now from Secret City Records, and will be embarking on a Canadian tour soon: 2/14 – Vancouver, BC – The Pearl 2/15 – […]
Ink19 Praises The “Evocative and Meaningful” New Release From the innocence mission
According to Ink19, the new album from the innocence mission is “an insular, slightly lo-fi album of vaporous quiet-core musings on absence and memory as evocative and meaningful as its title [Midwinter Swimmers]… Like walking in on a small book club of introverts in a closed library, experiencing Midwinter Swimmers feels intrusive and yet, it’s also welcoming, even […]
Post-Punk Digs The Pomp and Pretense-Free Sounds of Sun Atoms
Sun Atoms’ new LP Everything Forever, writes Post-Punk.com, “suggests horizons just out of reach, merging shadowed rhythms, hushed tones, brooding bass lines, and guitars that oscillate between abrasive bursts and chiming clarity. Its strength lies in its architecture, transcending familiar fragments to become something wholly alive and innovative. On tracks like ‘Mandatory,’ echoes of David Bowie’s Blackstar emerge in forlorn, sax-laden […]
New Release From Leif Vollebekk
Multi-instrumentalist Leif Vollebekk has released a new radio edit of “Rock and Roll,” the opening track on his new album Revelation and a “song you need to know” according to Rolling Stone. Revelation has been raved about by critics and fans alike since its release on September 27. Bedroom Disco has called it “by far the best work by this talented singer-songwriter to […]
KLOF Lauds the innocence mission’s “Sparkling Clarity”
Of the innocence mission, KLOF Mag writes, “they have certainly made the most of their time, creating thirteen albums of sparkling clarity and coherent vision since their 1989 debut, and they show no sign of slowing up. Picking a favourite Innocence Mission album is something of a fool’s errand, given the way in which all of their music […]
Jsun Atoms Chats With Wildfire Music
Wildfire Music recently interviewed Jsun Atoms of Portland’s Sun Atoms, who just released their sophomore album Everything Forever. The interview gets into the nuts and bolts of the band’s process, including a story about tacos in Joshua Tree’s Pioneertown and a discussion about how vinyl can impact song length. Get at it here. Everything Forever is at radio now from Little […]
New Release From Springhouse
Independent Project Records (IPR) and the New York City three-piece Springhouse have announced that they will reissue the band’s 2008 12-track album, From Now to OK, on March 14. Springhouse may be best remembered as the first major-signed, nationally-touring US shoegaze band of the original era; a 1991 MTV video, “Layers,” a Rolling Stone feature and copious airplay brought notice […]
The Arts Desk Compares the innocence mission To Claude Monet’s Paintings
According to The Arts Desk, new innocence mission LP “Midwinter Swimmers is the musical analogue of Claude Monet’s Nymphéas (Water Lilies) series of paintings, where the familiar is depicted in a way which brings new meaning. Imagery where detail which might be missed brings a fresh understanding of a recognisable setting, and where connections are made between the everyday and the imagined. Or, […]
The Ringmaster Review Digs Sun Atoms’ Sound
The Ringmaster Review says that Sun Atoms’ new album “Everything Forever is an encounter that should not be passed by especially by those with adventurous psychedelic/dark wave/electro pop nurtured appetites… a sound that embraces light rich flavours beyond that psychedelic/dark wave base with Everything Forever finding within and bringing a more spiritual at times almost ritual, certainly rhythmically, beauty.” Check out […]
Goldmine Honors Westbound Records
Goldmine honored ORG Music’s Westbound Records reissue series on its list of “best soul & r&b reissue series” of 2024. “ORG Music is primarily a high-quality reissue record label who plays ball with the best of them,” writes Goldmine. “The reputation of the label, for years, has preceded itself to attracting not just the average music fan, but as […]
For Folk’s Sake Calls the innocence mission “Miraculous”
“With love and optimism at its core, the innocence mission perform the miraculous,” writes For Folk’s Sake about the long-running trio’s new album Midwinter Swimmers. “From the myriads of moments, they have found the way to stitch together the hopes and dreams that make every day experiences unique.” Read the full review here. The album is at radio currently […]
CBC Shares Leif Vollebekk Concert
Have you ever wondered what Leif Vollebekk is like as a live performer? We’ve seen him a couple of times, and he’s the real deal: a true musical talent who is impressively fluid with his vocals and instrumentation. The CBC has filmographic evidence of this, in the form of a 2022 concert film of Vollebekk’s debut at Toronto’s Massey […]
Alison Clancy Goes To Church
In a recent Creative Process feature, Alison Clancy describes the inspiration behind her EP Mutant Gifts. She says, “I, like so many artists through the ages, found creative refuge in a Church when I was invited to be an artist in residence on the beautiful campus of St. John’s Church in the West Village of New York City. I am not a […]
