Lisa O'Neill - The Wind Doesn't Blow This Far Right It's been some two-and-a-half years since Lisa O'Neill released the astonishing All Of This Is Chance LP, and the weight of those recordings feel as resolute as ever; a heft shaped by
Crooked Words #02 Just when I try and rein things in a little, we get a week like this where everything I listen to sounds like gold. So here are some more crooked words on some songs that have cut through the noise and crept into my week... Kara-Lis Coverdale
Episode 4 of our Lost Souvenirs radio show is out now and available to stream below and via Mixcloud. A little less talking from me (I think), a little more music (definitely); an hour or so of new and old songs for compnay. Really enjoyed this one, and hope you
Joanne Robertson - Blurr (LP) Cliches are usually cliches for a reason and this cliche says that we often find special things when we need them the most. This whole month has been something of a blur(r). I've been traveling a lot, and tired a lot, and
Released at the end of October, Songs of Hope for Gaza is a new and sprawling collection of songs being co-released by Dear Life Records and Pretty Purgatory to raise money for ANERA, who are supporting humanitarian aid and emergency relief in Gaza and beyond. The compilation has been curated
Episode 3 of the Lost Souvenirs is out now Lost Souvenirs is a new radio show from GoldFlakePaint, featuring an hour of new and old songs, carefully curated and mixed. Episodes 1-3 are available to stream now below or via the Mixcloud App here. Episode 3 * Jens Kuross - What
If you followed our end-of-year coverage in 2024, you might have found your way to Julia Sabra's striking Natural History Museum LP. Raw and heartbreaking, it was Sabra's first solo release away from her work as Snakeskin; a marked departure from the electronic-pop she makes alongside
Last winter, I got really into the work of John Moreland, the earthy, gravel-voiced songwriter from Tulsa, Oklahoma. His work feeds off the winter, a symbiotic relationship between that voice and the season, imbuing each other with a heightened sense of melancholy. His Visitor LP from 2024 remains a frequent
The dusty and staggering magic of Jens Kuross It's always satisfying when we're able to follow a flailing little thread from one post to the next. Which is to say that the same day we were sharing Hayden Pedigo's new collaboration (with the brilliantly
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
The music of Emily Yacina has been bubbling away in the background of my life for well over a decade now – although it's been six years since her last new album, and three years since the release of career-spanning collection 'All The Things'. Debut album Heart
“I wanted the music to feel more like the Earth does when left to its own devices,” Rafiq Bhatia has said of his forthcoming album Environments. With that idea at the centre of it all, Bhatia gently constructed a new world of his own making, eight new songs that "
Welcome to Lost Souvenirs, a brand new radio show from GoldFlakePaint. It's an hour of music, all carefully curated and gently mixed; a revolving spotlight of new and old songs, from one to the other and back again. Lost Souvenirs feels like a nice complement to the words