Secret Emchy Society – Gold Country/Country Gold (Broken Clover Records) If Nick Cave took his murder ballads to the next logical conclusion and leaned into his country side, his music would likely sound more than a little like Secret Emchy Society’s tragically underrated catalogue. The latest Gold Country/Country Gold is more of the same from […]
Delta Spirit – One Is One (New West Records) For One Is One, their latest LP, San Diego’s Delta Spirit does little to deviate from the template they’ve created over their past few records, blending a more modern-sounding Indie Rock with snatches of folk and Americana. It was forged after their first couple of records […]
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Matt Dorrien – Blue Pastoral (Mama Bird Recording Co.) Four years after his stellar debut, Matt Dorrien is back with his sophomore effort, Blue Pastoral, a bittersweet, if slightly quieter follow up. Across 10 tracks of piano-based folk, jazz and pop Dorrien has moved on from the post-break up blues that came to define In […]
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Bear’s Den – Blue Hours (Communion Records) For Blue Hours, their fourth record, UK-based folk band Bear’s Den offers their most personal album yet. Across 10 tracks Andrew Davie and Kevin Jones dig deep into confessional songs about struggles, despair and mental health issues, resulting in their most powerful collection of songs yet. The opening […]
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Erika Lewis – A Walk Around The Sun (Self-Released) Erika Lewis, the former vocalist for Tuba Skinny, recorded the songs from her latest solo effort, A Walk Around The Sun, just before undergoing surgery in 2020 that could have damaged her vocal cords and effectively end career as a musician. It should come as little […]
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Wesley Dean – unknown (Hall of Flames Records) For over a decade, Wesley Dean – going by the name Wes Carr as well as Buffalo Tales – has built an impressive career in his native Australia. After winning a season of Australian Idol, he went on to put out half a dozen albums (between LPs […]
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Juni Ata – Some Songs EP (Flying On Fire Records) Jesse Daniel Edwards, recording under the moniker Juni Ata, is just the latest in a long line of talented musicians who was raised in a religiously repressive home that forbade popular music. He didn’t hear his first Dylan song until he was in his early […]
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Aaron Skiles – Wreckage From The Fire (Self-Released) The Oakland, CA-based indie rock band Bourbon Therapy may not have made it past the global pandemic that shut down bands in every corner of the world, but frontman Aaron Skiles wasted no time working on his next project. Skiles, along with Drive-By Truckers bassist Matt Patton, […]
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The Dip – Sticking With It (Dualtone Records) Sticking With It, The Dip’s latest LP and first for Dualtone Records, picks up nicely from 2019’s Delivers, continuing their streak of remarkably satisfying updated takes on soul and R&B. Recorded and self-produced in their Seattle home studio, the set opens with the previously released, but brilliant […]
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Steve Poltz – Stardust & Satellites (Red House Records/Compass Records) On Stardust & Satellites, Steve Poltz’s 14th (14th!!!) solo album, it takes just one song to remind you why he is still one of the wittiest song writers in the folk/Americana world right now. On “Wrong Town,” Poltz introduces himself to his audience explaining he’s […]
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