A self-professed “folk music dork” in high school, Jake Xerxes Fussell doesn’t find satisfaction in creating songs. Instead, he digs through the dark corners, rediscovering of folk songs, mining regional variations, trying to realign and recontextualise tunes for the twenty-first…
How many moments make up a life? Laurelyn Dossett has spent over thirty years writing songs for others, songs performed by the likes of Levon Helm and the Carolina Chocolate Drops. She’s written music for plays, toured with the North…
Kurt Wagner wants to disappear. Yet his music is so idiosyncratic that it can’t help but stand out. In a career filled with indelible moments Punching the Clown may be the most unique thing he’s ever recorded. An album with…
One woman. A laptop. Two microphones. A 10′ x 14′ foot backyard “recording studio.” The Japanese concept of wabi-sabi – finding meaning in imperfection, impermanence and simplicity. With these elements Laura Veirs created Temple Songs, an album that, with the…
Sophie Moore knows only too well songs don’t always provide answers. And singing hasn’t always been the answer for her. From singing with her brother Julian in Foggy Cry and sharing the stage with Hawkwind in the 80s, to working…
A soft insistence informs the acoustic guitar of ‘Honeyeater’, the brief track opening Luluc’s sixth long player, Sweet Thief. Much like the music of Zoë Randell and Steve Hassett, the song doesn’t attack. It creeps up on you, little by little, weaving its way through…