AC Newman’s Shut Down The Streets will be welcome listening for those who want to extend the summer past the album’s October release date. The album’s instrumentation is flecked with major key twinkling of banjos, dulcimers and Rhodesy keys that…
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Album | Ryan Bingham – Tomorrowland
After receiving a string of awards, and the Billboard success of his third album Junky Star, it is no surprise that Ryan Bingham wanted a bit of a shake-up, somewhat comparable to Emma Watson’s haircut after filming for the Harry…
Album | Denver – Denver
The idea, floated in their press release, that Denver come across as “a modern-day Highwaymen” might be stretching it a little bit. Groupings that bring together the likes of Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson and Waylon Jennnings belong in…
Album | Mark Eitzel – Don’t Be A Stranger
It is important throughout your life to proclaim your joy. So Mark Eitzel told us on his 2001 EP. Eleven years on, as he releases his latest album Don’t Be A Stranger, the 53-year-old has more reason than ever to…
Album | The Wooden Sky – Every Child a Daughter, Every Moon a Sun
There was a time, not long past, when a form of nationalistic profiling was necessary when tackling a new album of Canadian descent. Most of them were either by Arcade Fire, by Arcade Fire wannabes or featured one or more…
Album | Mat Gibson – Long Goner
Mat Gibson has impressed many with his beautiful sombre melodies and there has been much anticipation for new material since the much acclaimed Forest Fire. Well now the wait is over in the form of the enchanting Long Goner. Mat…
Album | The Be Good Tanyas – A Collection
Having had only limited exposure to the Be Good Tanyas and always been interested in hearing more, I fall squarely within the target audience for a retrospective, and this set forms a fine education. The older songs tend to be…
Album | Adrian Crowley – I See Three Birds Flying
It’s hard to tell whether being called the “best songwriter no-one’s ever heard of” is a compliment or a barb. Adrian Crowley knows just how it feels to wrestle with that conundrum but, when the description is delivered by none…
Album | Hurray For The Riff Raff – Look Out Mama
The story of Alynda Lee Segarra’s drift into the music business is one of those that seems a little too good to be true. The notion that, by the age of 17, she had already escaped The Bronx to drift…
Album | Jackamo Brown – Oh No, The Drift of the World
It would be fair to say Scroobius Pip is not a name I ever expected to write on this website. However, from the wondrously bearded rapper-poet’s new Speech Development label comes man of mystery Jackamo Brown with his curiously titled…