by Lorenzo Righetto • • Comments Off on Album | Mirah – Understanding
If someone told you Understanding is the first record by a new artist, discovered by Sub Pop on Youtube just a few months ago, you would probably believe it without so much as a blink. Mirah’s sixth album is imbued…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Single | Scott Chasolen – Limbo
Perhaps best known for his brilliant work behind the keys, Scott Chasolen is letting redolent guitar tones and a hearty voice take the reins on his newest single, ‘Limbo’. Left-of-center triads develop an almost ominous tone straightaway, paving the path…
by Tan the Man • • Comments Off on Album | Mountain Man – Magic Ship
Almost ten years ago, Alexandra Sauser-Monnig, Amelia Meath, and Molly Sarlé spontaneously began a musical partnership while attending Bennington College in Vermont, which resulted in establishing the folk trio Mountain Man, releasing a full-length debut album Made the Harbor, and…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Album | Adam’s House Cat – Town Burned Down
It seems like most things the Drive-By Truckers do have a story, and usually a damn good one. Town Burned Down, the only album recorded by Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley’s pre-DBT band Adam’s House Cat, is no exception. Originally…
by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Album | The Jellyman’s Daughter – Dead Reckoning
More than just a name for their second long player, Emily Kelly and Graham Coe of The Jellyman’s Daughter know Dead Reckoning is a way of calculating one’s current position. While not the most accurate approach, it gets the job…
by For Folk's Sake • • Comments Off on Album | Kitty Macfarlane – Namer of Clouds
On her debut album Somerset singer-songwriter Kitty Macfarlane presents an occasionally dazzling set of songs that span traditional and contemporary folk, and includes a few numbers that might well deserve a spot among the English folk canon themselves. The press…
by Lorenzo Righetto • • Comments Off on Album | Broeder Dieleman – Komma
Easy to categorize as the “Dutch Bonnie Prince Billy”, Tonnie aka ‘Broeder’ Dieleman has ventured into a career of his own, made of strong asceticism and unrelenting musical research. These are ingredients that place him among a restricted circle of…
by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Album | Dawn Landes – Meet Me At The River
The career of Dawn Landes hasn’t run in a straight line. She has always gone where the spirit moved her, never making the safe choice. That would explain why she released Covers, an EP of tunes by Bruce Springsteen, Tom…
by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Live | Pitchfork Music Festival – Union Park, Chicago
Friday, July 20, 2018 In a light drizzle, Chicago’s own The Curls took to the stage at 1 p.m. Blending everything from the B-52s to Frank Zappa, this five-piece band didn’t even notice the weather as they played with abandon. Throwing out…
by Pete Bate • • Comments Off on Album | Low – Double Negative
If Low’s last album, 2015’s acclaimed Ones and Sixes, saw them slip off their slowcore shackles, Double Negative feels like a near-detonation of all that’s gone before. As the band moved into their third decade, a sense of consolidation surrounded…