Volcano Choir’s Repave is a beautiful album, not to be taken as a collection of songs, rather to be enjoyed as one piece of music in its entirety. That said, I felt like I only understood the power in the…
Album | Volcano Choir – Repave
Album | Chelsea Wolfe – Pain Is Beauty
Upon hearing Pain is Beauty for the first time, even before reading in Chelsea Wolfe’s website bio that her third studio album is ‘a self-described love letter to nature’, it was clear that the essence resonating most strongly throughout is…
#185 Charles Aznavour – I Drink
We first heard this track on Bob Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour, when he called Charles Aznavour the “Frank Sinatra of France”. It’s an incredible diatribe from an eloquent, bitter man: “I drink to drive away all the years I have…
Interview | Introducing…Anton Opic
‘I don’t feel “home” anywhere,’ says Antun Opic, the half German, half Croation author of No Offense, a glorious amalgamation of its creator’s diverse musical influences. Despite Opic’s declaration that the album ‘has nothing to do with Balkan music’, it’s…
Album | Lucy Ward – Single Flame
From the first drum beat Single Flame creates an intense ambience reminiscent of an emerging Florence + the Machine, using her voice as the primary instrument Lucy Ward entrances the listener with epic and satirical lyrics. The power behind ‘I…
#184 Reuben Hollebon – Faces
Charlie Hugall, who worked on both of Florence + the Machine’s albums, gets a producing credit on this new track from Reuben Hollebon and it’s a link that makes sense. It’s a song that starts small, foregrounds some striking percussion…