From the beginning, Javier Velez was a musical prodigy capable of perfect pitch. He’d first showcased his extraordinary, innate talents to his parents before he could even speak while humming along to his favorite cartoon theme songs, and they knew…
It’s a big, strange house (a convent, in fact), the kind you might hear ghost stories about. And it’s a long way from home, in Richelieu, France, where the Leisure Society have gone to record, to get away from it…
Set up by last year’s solo album by Adrianne Lenker, from where U.F.O.F. takes a couple of tracks, the new Big Thief album is “state-of-the-art” contemporary Americana. The spare experience of abysskiss, a fully accomplished record, is transferred to the…
This weeks session comes from Jeremy Tuplin, with a track from his recently released album Pink Mirror. Jeremy describes Pink Mirror as: A jovial sojourn through some of human nature’s so-called dark sides. It’s a satirical look at representations of…
Some things just can’t be rushed. Oliver Cherer – the prolific artist behind Gilroy Mere, Dollboy, The Assistant, Australian Testing Labs and more – began writing these songs on a Yamaha 4 cassette recorder back in 1983. Influenced by early…
Lush, orchestral, and complex, the world of Lydia Ainsworth’s Phantom Forest is virtually all her. This world she inhabits having written most of the music and lyrics, played the vast majority of the instruments, and produced the album in its…