Bob Fish

The whole philosophy that less is more comes to fruition on Renée Reed. Using the most rudimentary of equipment she is able to spin songs of pure gold. Renée Reed has found a most magical place. We are lucky that she has allowed us to come along for the ride.

Sunny War seems to have lived more in her short life than most people live in a lifetime, those experiences colour her new album, Simple Syrup. She is, quite frankly, a woman of exceptional depth. A remarkable album.

Adam Douglas has successfully transformed his Norwegian wood into something imbued with the aural forces that emanate from the heart of Memphis. He has conjured the rudiments of American music and given them a new home.

Eric D. Johnson chats to KLOF Mag about his last twenty years in music from working with The Shins to Bonny Light Horseman, as well as Fruit Bats and his new album The Pet Parade.

Jimbo Mathus and Andrew Bird’s ‘These 13’ is the kind of effort that illustrates how traditions can be passed down from generation to generation while adding elements that continue to breathe new life into old forms.

With The Pet Parade, Eric D. Johnson doesn’t rework the past like Bonny Light Horseman, rather he creates moments filled with the glory of a world where you have an opportunity to find your own place. An album that’s sure to find the kind of audience Eric D. Johnson has only imagined.

While the album may seem to some like a travelogue, it is actually a journey inside the minds of Mahood, Dybvig and Nash. As Plankton Wat, Future Times lays out out a manifesto for change. We need to listen with open hearts.

If traditions are made to be broken, then Altın Gün has smashed them to bits. But what they have done is reassembled the bits, shaken them around and redeployed them within the framework of Yol. Folk music for the modern dance floor, what a concept!

Sometimes the boldest statements are least expected. Katy Kirby turns just about everything on its head. Cool Dry Place is the kind of statement that announces a new voice ready to be heard again and again.

Ryan Dugré has created a work that suggests complexity, based not on the number of notes so much as the feelings behind those notes. A wonder exists within the wood and steel.

That Merlynn Belle at first sounds strange is a testament to their unwillingness to bend to rules enforced from the outside world. Once their spell is cast you find them impossible to resist.

While Ignorance is supposed to be an album filled with planetary concerns, there is much that can also be taken on a personal level. It is an album with heart and soul, two commodities that seem to be in short supply these days.