Bob Fish

On Finishing School, Teri Bracken finds a way to express feelings that suggest we don’t need to be tied to outside expectations.

Thanks to Patterson Hood and The Drive-By Truckers, Jerry Joseph has created nothing short of a masterpiece. This is a candidate for Album of the Year. Period.

For the uninitiated, Waves makes a great introduction to singer, songwriter, force of nature – Tommy Alexander. There’s plenty to chew on and it’s all pretty tasty.

The Devil Laughs is a mini-masterpiece. Rejoice in the fact that music of this magnitude is finally being released to a world that has never needed it more.

Bells in the Ruins is a collection that requires both care and consideration. While the thorns outnumber the roses, both are necessary, one cannot exist without the other.

Playing on your expectations, Z Berg paints a series of pastels and watercolours that form a new vision of how to engage with your surroundings.

Samantha Crain’s most personal album to date, crafted to reflect how her life changed over the past three years, focusing not on the past but a brighter future.

An album that picks up steam and spirit moving on to better days, Suzanne Vallie’s Love Lives Where Rules Die lights the darkness that can live within our hearts.

On Mountain Time’s ‘Music For Looking Animals’, Chris Simpson looks back to find a way forward, crafting more mature and cathartic music.

Solidly tinged with a crumbling dream in his rearview mirror, Gustafson views the human impact affecting both our crushed dreams and our haunted soul.

Nearing 80, Bob Dylan remains a wonder, able to paint aural pictures that excite the senses, continuing to breathe life into a medium that doesn’t tend to value longevity.

On one level Golden State passes by on a summer breeze, light, airy, easy on the ears. Yet when you really listen, it blossoms in ways that you never expected.