Ah, beautiful restraint. Perhaps the most powerful thing of all. Take an eight-piece, able to burst in full sound and colour, add a collaborator who can do the same so wildly and so often – and then hold it all back. Keep it simmering under cloud, behind peeling layers, sharing just
It doesn't matter much in the grand scheme of things, I guess, but it's always impressive to see a "Written, recorded, performed, produced, and mixed by..." note on the bottom of a Bandcamp page. Especially when the associated songs sound as beautifully (complex, weightless)
Due to the ever-relentless rush of time itself, it's somehow been three years since the last full-length Will Fox record. I still listen to Old News plenty, the subtle nature of Will's craft, of his plaintive and earthy song-writing still revealing new shades with each passing
Under his semi-eponymous band name, François Marry has been releasing woozy and luxurious indie-pop records for a number of years now, first breaking through with a 2009 debut album on the Fence label. After subsequently signing to Domino, he released a further four albums throughout the 2010s before unveiling his
Well I'm just trying to build a good life Nailing down shingles in the right sign No curling in the daylight Like the old folks said they could Some tried to make me out a liar But I'm a dreamer with no answers Oh who'
Well, it's all here. Piano and pedal steel, broken hearts and hammered dulcimers, organs and oh oh oh, those melodies. So rich and full and conjured out of long magic nights. Out of the ether. Tobacco City. There are nods to Gram Parsons and Emmylou, a six-minute bar
Not only is Benét's new video a mini cinematic masterpiece in its own right, but the song itself is too; a hazy and gorgeous blend of varying moods, temperatures, and spoken-word snippets that crafts a whole character of its own.New single 'Wonder', released yesterday, is
Well, damn. Lost and Found; a reminder of magic. How a song that lasts for less than three minutes can shift the light in a room, the shape of a day. How it can, in its own subtle shape, shrink the world down to just the space around you, and
Last we heard from The Westerlies, the Brooklyn based instrumental quartet were reinterpreting work from the likes of Sufjan collaborator Nico Muhly and the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw on 2023's shape-shifting Move LP. Now, the brass quartet (two trumpets, two trombones) are back with a brand new
Approaching 25 years as a band, Efterklang turned out some of their finest work to-date on last year's beautiful Things We Have In Common LP, a decadent, richly detailed collection of songs "about collective spirituality and belonging". Chief among those new recordings were guest appearances from
A brand new project, formed and led by Savages' Fay Milton, Goddess release a debut album at the end of May. Preceding it comes a bold debut single, carrying the album's context in its glistening hands. Formed of 10 new songs, the album pulls together a host
I've had the longest few days. Packing up a home and starting a new one, with different rooms and different views, emptinesses to get used to. You lose yourself in that movement, a swirling mess of packing and unpacking, phone calls and masking tape, dusts above and beyond.