The Lowest Pair features the duel banjo picking of Kendl Winter and Palmer T. Lee. Draped in Kendl’s high lonesome harmonies and Palmer’s Midwest croon, we featured their debut 36¢ back in February. Team Love will release their sophomore album, The Sacred Heart Sessions in February. Check out the gorgeous harmonies and sweet picking of Rosie. . Continue reading New Album From The Lowest Pair
The latest instalment of our pick of the excellent tracks you should really have made time to hear this week… 1. Parkay Quarts – Content Nausea 2. Fugazi – Waiting Room (First Demo) 3. Ex-Cult – Cigarette Machine 4. Screaming Females – Ripe 5. King of Cats – Ulcers 6. Velveteens – Loneliness 7. Andy Shauf – I’m Not Falling Asleep . . . . . … Continue reading Seven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Perfect Abandon is the new album by singer-songwriter Tom Brosseau. Out on the 10th February next year via Crossbill Records, the first taste comes in the form of the sparsely beautiful, intimate lead single Roll Along With Me. . Continue reading New Album From Tom Brousseau
Founded in Austin in 2012, Matthew Squires and the Learning Disorders is an ever-evolving project, centered around the penetrating songs of young singer-songwriter Matthew Squires. Their new album, titled Where The Music Goes To Die, is certainly a step up from anything that has gone before. Vocals are much calmer and controlled and a fuller range of (still off-kilter and unique) songwriting is on full display as … Continue reading New Album From Matthew Squires & The Learning Disorders
Melding their indie and prog-rock influences with a folkier sensibility, and ten years after they released their debut album The Melancholy Death Of…, The Chemistry Experiment are set to release their follow-up record Gongs Played By Voice via Fortuna POP! in early January. Containing nine beautifully arranged songs that call to mind the best of Will Oldham, Tindersticks and King Crimson, have a listen to … Continue reading The Chemistry Experiment – Gongs Played By Voice
We’ve loved Houndmouth from the moment we heard their brilliant track Penitentiary back in July 2012. It was followed by an excellent debut album From The Hills Below The City last year and now they are back with For No One, the first preview of their new Rough Trade album set for release next year. The track showcases a new sparse and epic side of the Indiana … Continue reading New From Houndmouth
The reissue by Earth Recordings of Howard Enyon’s long deleted acid-folk masterpiece So What If Im Standing In Apricot Jam (the no apostrophe is deliberate) has been one of our favourite discoveries of the year. We have already posted a couple of off kilter, some might say bizarre, tracks from it and here is a third, the marvellous Happy Song. Dig in. . Continue reading Another From Howard Enyon Reissue
She Keeps Bees have shared a new, beautifully shot yet slightly surreal and unsettling video for Owl, a standout track from their most recent release Eight Houses. . . Continue reading New Video: She Keeps Bees – Owl
Seeing the Milk Carton Kids at SXSW in 2013 was a joy and now the vintage loving, harmonising duo have tackled the Squidbillies theme. Stream / download it here. . Continue reading MM Shorts 631: Milk Carton Kids
The e-mails have piled up like never before in our in-box, and having started to trawl through them for a few hours last night, here are a few gems we came across to make Monday more bearable – some old(er), some new, some borrowed, and some blue(s). Or something like that…check them for yourself. Let’s kick off with the brilliant Total Sunflower by Chimes is … Continue reading Start Of The Week Round Up
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