Petal Motel Premieres Soft Sailors Video
Petal Motel recently premiered the video for “What We Live” by Soft Sailors, a single we sent out a while ago to radio. Produced during quarantine, the lo-fi video stars bandleader Geoff Geis being chased by an animorphic crow that may or may not be a figment of his own imagination. Check it out here.
Echoes Picks Lanterna For CD Of The Month
Echoes has picked Lanterna‘s Hidden Drives as its CD of the Month for July. The program describes the project thusly: “Lanterna was at the leading edge of Ambient Americana. It’s a sound passed down from Ry Cooder’s Paris, Texas through Brian Eno’s Apollo, Bruce Kaphan’s Slider and mostly recently emerging in groups like SUSS. While […]
Bend Source Speaks With Left Vessel About Recording In Nature
Bend Source recently spoke with Nick Byron Campbell, the man behind Left Vessel. His new album, One (And Driftless), was created partially in a studio and recorded partially in the wilderness of Minnesota. “Regarding the natural sounds [that appear on the album],” Campbell tells Bend Source, “I’ve been tinkering a lot with recording in unique environments […]
Bandsintown Talks To Megan Palmer About Live Streaming
Megan Palmer is currently promoting a new EP, Take Good Care, but last year she learned a lot about live streaming during the pandemic. She talked recently with Bandsintown about what she learned from the experience, including how it helped her connect with people from her past and how good it felt to inspire generosity […]
Schwey, Among KCRW’s Favorites of 2021, Chats With Georgia Straight
We love Schwey, and apparently we’re not alone. The Vancouver-based band’s new LP Schwey 2: Cyber Soul is getting love at radio, including from Morning Becomes Eclectic Co-Host Anthony Valadez. The longtime KCRW DJ says he can’t “believe the progression within each song and into the next,” writing that the LP “feels like the perfect […]
Folk Radio Interviews Left Vessel and Shares Video of The Arbow
Folk Radio UK has not only an interview with Nick Byron Campbell, the man behind Left Vessel, but a video of him at work. The site notes that, “while artists have been known to record in nature, and some have even recorded the sounds of nature, on One (and Driftless), Left Vessel uses nature as the […]
Backseat Mafia Hails Patrick Watson’s “Gentle, Clever Beauty”
Backseat Mafia describes Patrick Watson‘s new three-song EP a “gentle, clever beauty… Made with vocalist Teresa Salguerio, the triptych consists of the beautiful duetted Portuguese-language fragment, ‘Se tu soubesses’ (‘If you knew’); a centerpiece of swooning orchestral lusciousness, the title track, ‘A Mermaid In Lisbon,’ as romantic as modern, recherché, intelligent pop could ever strive to […]
Associated Press Profiles Megan Palmer and Take Good Care
Last summer, as registered nurse and veteran musician Megan Palmer was both tending to COVID patients and working with fellow nurses on the songs that would become Take Good Care, she was profiled by the Associated Press. The site’s feature goes into the process behind making the album, and it also takes readers behind-the-scenes of […]
Stereo Embers Loves Lanterna’s New LP
Stereo Embers calls Hidden Drives, the new album from Lanterna, an “ever-unfolding epiphany… Instrumental throughout as has been nearly all of Lanterna’s material, this is music that, via innovative if unforced turns and some purposeful detours, gets out of its own way.” The site has a review of the LP, full of effusive language that […]
Americana UK Says The Contraptionists Succeed
About the Contraptionists' new LP Working Man's Dread, Americana UK writes that "Paul Givant and Stephen Andrews have set out to create a big and robust sound whilst playing as many instruments as possible between the two of them. In best one-man band tradition, they share vocals, play guitar, bass and banjo whilst using their […]
WHRO Applauds The Fratellis
Earlier this year, WHRO‘s Paul Shugrue featured The Fratellis in an album of the week feature. On Half Drunk Under A Full Moon, “more elaborate sonic touches to go along with their sometimes lunatic lyrics. Phil Spector’s wall of sound is a definite influence on the new album with their long-time producer Tony Hoffler layering […]
Melpo Mene Shares Newest Video
Melpo Mene has a new video out for "Wrong At Last," one of the songs from his new LP Vernalagnia. Filmed by Logi Hilmarsson, the clip follows Icelandic Selkie as she traipses around beautiful landscapes. Enjoy it here. Melpo Mene's album is at radio now and going for airplay.
Secret Meeting Says Three Is Patrick Watson’s “Magic Number” Of Songs
“Three is the magic number,” writes Secret Meeting, “for Patrick Watson on A Mermaid in Lisbon. A true return to the CD single style format – showing three very different, but equally immersive cuts, which all deserve our attention.” The site describes the collection in detail here. Get A Mermaid in Lisbon spinning now!
Megan Palmer Performs “Take Good Care” At Bowery Vault
Megan Palmer enlisted a group of supremely talented musicians for Take Good Care, her new EP of songs co-written with her fellow registered nurses during the pandemic. Recently, however, she performed the title track all by herself at Bowery Vault in Nashville. See the stripped-down performance here, and get Take Good Care spinning now.
New Music From Left Vessel
One (and Driftless) is the first release from Left Vessel, but it’s not the first project by Nick Byron Campbell. The sound artist and multi-instrumentalist has been a part of multiple bands, including Arizona, an Asheville-by-way-of-Brooklyn outfit that toured with the likes of Band of Horses and The Slip (featuring The Barr Brothers); Wages, an […]
Last Day Deaf Gets Behind Gregory Ackerman’s New Single
Last Day Deaf enjoys the new single “Full Grown” by Gregory Ackerman, and in a recent premiere praised the track for its “intimate vocal performance, which is genuinely combined with the best possible string arrangement to unleash the most of this indie folk gem, and that ‘invisible,’ soft veil of melancholy which is pervasive throughout […]
Cool Hunting Shares Patrick Watson’s New EP
Cool Hunting has shared A Mermaid In Lisbon, the new “entrancing” new EP from Patrick Watson. Noting that the record draws “inspiration from Watson’s walks throughout Lisbon,” the site writes that “Together, the three tracks form a world unto themselves; at times symphonic, at times molecular.” Listen here. A Mermaid in Lisbon, out now from […]
Sunny War Adds Summer Shows
Sunny War, whose LP Simple Syrup is at radio now from Hen House Studios and ORG Music, has announced more summer tour dates including a few rad festivals. Find her on the road, and keep supporting her on the radio – especially if you’re near the towns where she’s performing. 08/14 – Bethlehem, PA – […]
Canadian Beats Asks Five Questions of Schwey
It's been a while since Canadian Beats' "five questions" feature with Schwey, but the group's explanation of how they work is certainly applicable to new release Schwey 2: Cyber Soul: "We do everything all at once when writing. We record, write, mix, produce, practice, jam, all at once." The interview also includes a list of […]
Dusted Dives Into Lanterna’s Hidden Drives
Dusted took a recent dive into Hidden Drives, from Lanterna. “Hidden Drives,” the site explains, “is the seventh album in this wholly instrumental project’s catalogue, and it hits a sweet spot in the overlap between ambient meditation and propulsive groove … [with] a relentless, bubbling optimism, a sense of purpose and forward motion. Though made […]
