For ‘Anniversary’, Abigail Lapell celebrates commitment and growing old together…with music and songs such as these, let’s hope her albums turn into an annual event.
Josienne Clarke’s ‘Parenthesis, I’ is an affirmation that out of the deepest darkness sometimes comes the brightest light…to paraphrase her lyric, Clarke spins her alchemy, she gives us hope.
Massachusetts duo Mark Mandeville & Raianne Richards return with Making Promises, their fourth studio album, once more steeped in their close harmony folksy Americana with several stripped-back acoustic songs inspired by their marriage in 2021.
Bonny Light Horseman today shared their stirring new single “Old Dutch,” an indelible tale of shifting love. Watch the accompanying visualiser, filmed during a live performance at Levis Corner House pub in Ballydehob, Ireland.
Billed as an auditory journey into tinnitus, Lola de la Mata’s ‘Oceans on Azimuth’ is a unique and challenging piece of art. While never an easy listen, it somehow manages to become welcoming and even comforting.
Taken from his latest release, me, myself, god, watch Jonah Sissoyev performing ‘Bluebird’, one of the most beautiful songs I’ve heard in a long while. Also our Song of the Day.
On their debut album “Goodnight, Lad”, Sean R. McLaughlin & The Wind-Up Crows defy categorisation, delivering sonic shifts and unexpected moments to revel in.
While Fiona Apple’s drummer Amy Aileen Wood may prefer staying out of the spotlight, her solo album, The Heartening, may put an end to that. Challenging and invigorating, it examines the rhythms of a percussionist in a class of her own.
Avalanche Kaito’s music is like sped-up geological movement, defined by a detailed and often aggressive maximalism. Throughout Talitakum, the fragments pull together in tight cores, resulting in a gripping, uncompromising and constantly engaging album.
Ancestors is the second collection of folk songs from prolific Canadian musician Allister Thompson…what sets it apart are his interpretations -it’s as much a concept album about folk music as an actual folk album.
Listen to our Monday Morning Brew playlist featuring Flo Perlin, Jeb Loy Nichols, Brigid Mae Power, Msaki & Tubatsi, Dana Sipos, Kevin Morby, Deer Scout, Karima Walker, Kaia Kater, Juni Habel, Fern Maddie, Karl Blau, Herman Düne, Lemoncello, Cara Beth Satalino & more.
We met with guitarist Bill MacKay to discuss Locust Land, his third long player for Drag City. The album’s focus and detail shout confidence and clarity, and it features some of the most driving and uptempo songs he’s ever written.
