Though it's been four years since the release of Hand Habits Fun House LP - their last full-length studio effort - Meg Duffy has remained something of a constant, releasing outtakes, B-sides, live recordings, a new EP, all while appearing on work from the likes of Perfume Genius
In the time since her wonderful 2021 album Metal Bird, Eve Adams has made a home for herself out in the open plains of the American Southwest, and quietly set about writing what she calls her "eulogy for the American Dream", and what we find as one of
Hello friends and followers! Welcome to a shiny new feature, and something I've been meaning to pull together for a while now. It is, as it says right there, a round-up of some albums released today. I don't expect it to be a weekly feature but
It almost felt like a fever dream watching Alex G spiral into something huge. Like many of us who ran music blogs in the early 2010s he was I knew him as a ridiculously prolific character destined for a life in the shadows with his slightly weird, always skewed songwriter
One of those moments that leaks into your day like unexpected sunlight, discovering the new album from ganavya is both a meditative and restorative discovery. Recorded at Nils Frahm's at LEITER Studio in Berlin’s Funkhaus complex, and co-produced by the maestro himself, Nilam finds the NYC-born, Tamil
I'm not sure if 'line in the sand' is quite the right term to use when talking about the new album from Greet Death - but it's certainly a new chapter. Their first full-length in six years, the album comes after a host of
I stumbled upon John Moreland last year - highlighting his incredible Visitor LP in our end-of-year Curious Listening zine - with the caveat that I had no idea if he was a dusty cult voice hidden away in some Oklahoma bar room or a long-established veteran of the scene. I
I'm sitting at a new window as the sun is starting to set. Warm spring air is rolling in like summer. My laptop is perched on the windowsill and I'm still learning how the light lands in this house. In the couple of months since I
We were closing in on four years since the release of Ada Lea's previous album, the quietly enigmatic one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden LP. In the time since, Alexandra Levy went back to school to study painting and poetry and also started
I spent last week on holiday (hence the absence you may or may not have noticed), a few days away exploring somewhere new, all winding alleys, green mountains and sticky heat. A place outside of time. In that oddly-shaped gap between going and coming back - airports at night, woozy
soft sounds for a soft spring. available now via mixcloud. tracks: 22 run time: 1hr 28mins tracklist: common holly - aegean blue strawberry guy - birch tree florist - shadow bloom the marias - only in my dreams bonny doon - part of me men I trust - heavenly flow
So much of life now is spent trying to wrap my head around unfathomable passages of time that just don't make sense. GoldFlakePaint will be 15 years old next month, for one example. Carrie & Lowell came out ten years ago, for another. As such, it's
I'm not sure why it took me so long to listen to the new Men I Trust record. Sometimes life just slips past. I finally played it today, its sweet sounds filling the flat like evening light s I wandered around tidying, preparing dinner, small acts in the
"This is a hard song..." Bells Larsen says with a tut, his voice held in the quiet static surrounding the recording of 'Might', the closing song on the forthcoming Blurring Time LP. It's an earned quiet, a gentle moment of calm in what'
There's not a day goes by when an email doesn't drop into the GFP inbox offering an artist who, we're told, will appeal to fans of Sufjan Stevens. Hudson Freeman was one of those, but the other comparisons cast that link in a different
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