Though it's not often reflected in the posts here, there are times when I get a yearning for something altogether heavier, a big old slap around the face from some big old riffs before I slink back into the softer edges of things. Such a feeling has often
It’s the week before their album’s release and Meg Duffy is feeling proud. A few days previous, Meg – who’s made music as Hand Habits since the mid 2010s – sat among a host of friends and fellow musicians for a listening party where, through a “really nice hi-fi
After the release of her 2021 debut album, Devin Shaffer, so the story goes, found a discarded Martin guitar lying on the side of the road. Attached to it was a note that simply read: This is for you. Taking it both as a gift and a sign, Shaffer made
I first heard this collaboration between Constant Smiles and Cassandra Jenkins not as the stand-alone single that it is but rather in situ; the soft, quiet farewell it provides as the tenth and final song on the forthcoming – and really rather wonderful – new album from the New York-based band. Little
The solo project of London's Rory Sear, flypaper is a project that quietly nestles in besides similarly lofi, somewhat scruffy singer-songwriters such as Greg Mendez, Bandcamp-era Alex G, even Hovvdy in their more knotty earlier work. Sear himself call's his new single a "reflective song&
In the time that's passed since they finished making their previous full-length record, Admiral Fallow have experienced new life, new homes, the whole world locking down, as well as the 15th anniversary of their much-loved debut LP. All of the ups and downs, all of the time. All
Thank you to everyone who took the time to listen to Episode 1 of our new radio show. I listened to the valuable customer feedback and you can hear me introducing Episode 2, as a real person on a real radio show might do... Maybe we'll go even
There’s a piece of advice I read well over a decade ago now that has stayed with me. It was regarding listening to new music for the first time, and how it’s best to just look away from it, let it play out in the background. If a
We've had a short run of hot days and blue skies over here, a little final summer flourish perhaps, most probably. I tried hard to make the most of it, a camp on the beach last week, some swims, a big mountain climb yesterday. Those things we do
Greg Jamie is a devotee of dark weirdness In the notes that introduce us to the brand new album from Greg Jamie, they describe the Portland, Maine songwriter as "an established devotee of dark weirdness" – a descriptor that feels both absolutely true while, devoid of context, also conjure
'Hold the Edges', the opening track to Kitba's forthcoming new album of the same name, felt like a somewhat cryptic and intriguing introduction, a series of hints as to what the full collection could look like, without ever giving away what it would look like. New
Siichaq's CATCHER is a lofi gem The new album from Siichaq, the project of Atlanta-based songwriter Kennie Mason, launched itself with a simple motif: Life's A Mess. That first single – from the CATCHER LP, which is released today – did indeed carry a gloomy sense of greyness