[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkxyT27xRH0&w=420&h=315] The kick drum and finger picking opening of ‘Have You Ever’ by Brandi Carlile is what initially drew me in to this song, but the lyrics, harmonies, pace, and instrumentation sealed the deal. ‘Have You Ever’ is based…
Marissa Nadler’s seventh full-length album Strangers is just a couple of weeks away from release, and she’s delivered another delicious teaser this week by unveiling ‘Katie I Know’. Both lush and sparse at the same time, this is a soundscape…
It’s impossible to listen to Thomas Cohen’s Bloom Forever with out mentioning the death of his wife, Peaches Geldof. The album, nine songs written between 2012 and 2015 are presented in chronological order with Geldof’s heroin overdose in 2014 being…
Though her musical career has been birthed from out of folk roots, Irish singer-songwriter Naomi Hamilton paints a much broader picture than any particular genre could dare to encapsulate in Jealous of the Birds’ Parma Violets. On Parma Violets, Hamilton…
Haley Bonar will return in August with her sophomore record Impossible Dream, the follow-up to 2014’s The Last War. This week she’s unveiled lead single ‘I Can Change’, a breezy number which on the surface sounds ideal for spring, although…
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/220056056″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”100″ iframe=”true” /] A beautiful voice, introspective lyrics, gorgeous finger-picking, and catchy arrangements, are just a few words I’d use to describe ‘Not A Mechanical Dance of Atoms,’ the first track on Marshall Lewis’ new EP,…