★★★★ Good Luck Mountain is the new project from Tandy frontman Mike Ferrio, it covers a vast spread of genres from complex rock to soul and minimal ambiance.
★★★ Tiny Ruin’s debut album, Some Were Meant for Sea, paints tender and quaint stories of fictitious, perhaps allegorical figures that are as vivid as the climes in which they are placed.
★★★ Maria Taylor’s fourth solo release, Overlook, fixes itself firmly in a familiar location, embodying a sound created with a closeknit set of musicians plucked from Taylor’s close friends and family.
★★★ Paul Hiraga’s Downpilot latest release, New Great Lakes, was recorded in the woodland setting of Seattle’s Vashon Island, and herein captured is the more intimate, solo affair this fourth Downpilot outing harbours.
★★★★★ Initially ‘A Turn in the Dream-Songs’ plays out as a far less angsty affair than other helpings from New York based musician Jeffrey Lewis but there is little letting up in the talent of our comic book songwriter.
★★★★★ Michigan based band Small Houses return with their second LP North. Composed entirely by guitarist/vocalist Jeremy Quentin, featuring helping hands from fellow musicians Chris Bathgate and Jim Roll, alongside members of Frontier Ruckus and Red Tail Ring.
We chat to Will Whitwham of Canadian five-piece The Wilderness of Manitoba ahead of their short stop over in London, and debut European release When You Left the Fire.
★★★★★ Orienteers’ eponymous second release is a hazy, fragile, almost celestial sounding appreciation of travel (hence the name), and it follows up 2008′s Staying Places; released by the same folk under their original guise That’s the Spirit.
