I've spent the last few days traveling alone. From Glasgow to Lake Como, via a brief couple of hours in Milan and a night in Bologna. Music tends to take on its own kind of unique shape when its your only form of company over an extended period.
I've taken myself away, to Italy, to a small village on the edge of Lake Como. This time, I'm not running from anything, but toward something. A new chapter, or perhaps something else suitably commemorative. The day I arrive is grey and heavy. It's
Somehow, in these often great and terrible times, a full twelve years has passed since I first feel for, and subsequently wrote about, the music made by Brian Holl and Eric Hillman. Then, briefly, called Flights but since known as Foreign Fields, the pair have quietly released some of the
From the roll of drums and swash of guitar that greets you at the door of Why Bonnie's new album Wish On The Bone, you know you're in safe hands. From their early releases, through 2022's debut album, and now this eleven-song follow-up, Blair
In those not-so-long-ago days between not much and everything, between the having to buy physical items to listen and keeping the majority of recorded music inside our pockets, I found a handful of websites that would offer up indie rock albums for download, illegal treasures that heaved away in the
I don't know too much about the life and times of Karen Peris, Don Peris, and Mike Bitts outside of their work as the innocence mission; the music has always been more than enough. Together, friends since high school, they've been making perfect songs that date
“When I’m recording a song, my indication of whether it’s worth pursuing is if I’m seeing a movie in my head to go along with it," Kate Bollinger has said, ahead of her full-length debut, which arrives at the end of September via Ghostly. Such sentiments
Though it's not officially the case, there's not a chance that you can consider September on the west coast of Scotland as still being a part of Summer. Even with the weather being as bad as it has been this Summer, it still feels like a
For all of the sprawling cast of characters that helped bring 'Lucky #8' to life, it's testament to Jennifer Castle's voice and presence that renders such details to a mere footnote; an interesting aside to the sheer excellence she exudes throughout the song'
Growing up in a half-Peruvian, half-white working-class Mormon family, Emma Hardyman always felt somewhat out-of-step with the world around her. Like many of us who feel untethered, she found comfort and escape in art and music. This journey has taken her - via many twists and turns - to Little
"It feels like magic to slow down, cuz it is magic to slow down," sings Carolina Chauffe, halfway through the latest song from the forthcoming hemlock LP 444. And though the lyrics to 'Lake Martin' are wonderful enough to share the whole stream of them below,
I've been meaning to write about this gem of a record for a while now, it keeps finding a way to linger, to dig its nails in a little further. A duo from Oakland, dog eyes make a hypnotic blend of lofi folk and pop with little electronic