“Where do you run when your life’s on the line?” Amidst pizzicato strings Angelo De Augustine asks a question that cuts to the heart of Angel in Plainclothes. While finishing up Toil and Trouble in 2022, De Augustine wasn’t sure…
With their seventh studio album, Lost Cause Lover Fool, indie-folk darlings and four-time Grammy-nominated band The Milk Carton Kids have produced one of their most reflective works to date: a tender, poignant, nostalgic album that captures the spirit of how…
It’s going to take longer to write this review than it took Todd Albright to record and mix Blues for Dexter Linwood. Having played the songs live for a number of years, he went into a studio and laid down…
Juni Habel exists in a space rife with contradictions. The world is quite often overpowering, yet her music is, at its heart, delicate and effortless. As Habel explains, “We always aim to capture effortlessness, but the way of getting there…
It’s taken Joe Pernice thirty years to release his first solo album, Sunny, I Was Wrong. Along the way he’s recorded with the Scud Mountain Boys, Pernice Brothers, Chappaquiddick Skyline, The New Mendicants and Roger Lion. None of which are…
Life sneaks up on you, and it has a tendency to hurt like hell. Yet amid the pain there are moments of unrelenting beauty, where you connect with another person and everything seems just right. Charlotte Cornfield’s sixth collection, Hurts…
Understanding the geography of the heart is no easy task. Mapping the peaks and valleys requires a skill and honesty that can leave writers grasping at straws. Which makes the case of Flutes & Low more remarkable. Lay Fallow captures…
One of the enduring qualities of folk music is that its roots grow deep and once ensnared in those roots they don’t let go. Maz O’Connor has always been under the sway of traditional music. Her fifth album coming after…
Once again, Bonnie “Prince” Billy can see a darkness. His new record We Are Together Again deals – as the accompanying announcement explains – with a “world with a diminishing horizon”, the result of human action which has reshaped the…
Sons of Town Hall are the most incredible band from the early 1900s recording today. Wearing tattered clothes from the period, they become characters in a drama that unfurls during every performance live or recorded. Transformed from Ben Parker and…