Five years can be a lifetime. Especially when you front a band like Phosphorescent. Yet for Matt Houck it went by in the blink of an eye. Along the way he got married, moved from New York to Nashville, had…
Album | Phosphorescent – C’est La Vie
Category: Records
Album | JP Harris – Sometimes Dogs Bark At Nothing
Joshua Pless Harris seems to be the essence of a Kris Kristofferson song: “walking contradiction, partly truth, partly fiction.” Yet Harris has lived enough in 35 years for three men, leaving home at 14, hopping trains, working as a sheet…
Album | Songs For Walter – An Endless Summer Daze
Songs For Walter was originally the name Laurie Hulme gave to a collection of tracks about his grandfather, songs that garnered a great deal of praise. He also received his share of raves from many of the Radio 6 Music…
Album | Chloe Kimes – Apothecary
When your humble writer first came across Chloe Kimes, it was when she was singing three-parts in one of the first iterations of Awesome Distraction. Fast forward another four or five years from there and the Michigan-slash-Nashville artist has grown…
Album | Patrick Grant – FIELDS AMAZE and other sTRANGE music
As lengthy a title as it may be, Patrick Grant’s FIELDS AMAZE and other sTRANGE music lives up to it in a multifarious blend of ways. First and foremost, the nine tracks of which the album is comprised are, indeed, strange,…
Premiere | Micah P. Hinson – The Sleep of the Damned
There is an immediacy to these times, times when the sense of order so long known feels under threat. It’s an immediacy felt by Micah P. Hinson, who poured out his feelings when he recorded his new album When I…
Video Premiere | Copper Viper – ‘Hung Up Alone’
Do not let Copper Viper’s minimalist presentation fool you. As folk duos do, their dynamics may be clean and precise, but they are most certainly not without their intricacies. Just as the Milk Carton Kids would go on to wow…
Video Premiere | Anne Marie Almedal – You Keep Me At Arm’s Length
Norwegian songwriter Anne Marie Almedal is set to release her fourth solo album, and first in more than five years, next month with Lightshadow due out on October 26th. The new record brings a fresh new sound for this beguiling…
Album | Amy Helm – This Too Shall Light
Sometimes the only way to avoid a struggle is to allow someone else to take the wheel. Amy Helm needed help in order to be set free when it came to recording her latest LP. Producing her first album herself…
Album | The Suborbitals – Hey Oblivion
At the end of everything, there stands oblivion. We come into this life aware that it will one day end—that, like all matter that has come before and after us, we too will one day leave the way we came…