Anna B Savage is a big fan, it seems, of early-year album releases. Her debut album, A Common Turn, was released in January of 2021, its follow-up arrived in February of 2023, and she continues the pattern with You and i are Earth, the forthcoming ten-song set which will greet
We've shouted about Miya Follick for a number of years, always expecting the LA-based artist to fully breakthrough to the mainstream. Unusual, unique, and always teeming with star quality, Follick has made good on the promise shown on 2015's debut release and looks set to reach
So much of the music that Hamilton Leithauser has released via his band, The Walkmen, tends to come alive, or find a greater sense of spirit at this time of the year. Shuffling through city streets, fists stuffed in pockets, the wind ripping through your bones. Apt, then, that Leithauser
There's so much to the incredible, incredibly sprawling new TRA И Ƨ A compilation that we'll leave it to the organisation who pieced it together to tell the full story: Storied activist and music production non-profit Red Hot presents its latest project, TRAИƧA out November 22nd.
Though he arrives with a new name, Fran O'Hanlon may well sound familiar to those who knew him via his previous project, Ajimal. An considered extension of all that came before, Mezanmi released a brand new album just a couple of weeks ago and it's full
I was lucky to travel to a few different countries this year, and on each trip I got lost, headphones in and far from home, in Beirut's album from last year - having not listened to Zach Condon's project for a good few years. Hadsel, a
Chances are, if you reference a tree in your song title then you'll have my unadorned attention before I've heard a single note. That being said, I was already deep in the world of Emily Hines by the time 'Cedar On The River' tenderly
It's been a full 15 years since Local Natives emerged with their colourful, impassioned breed of indie rock, their 2009 debut album Gorilla Manor still one of the most cherished LPs from that fruitful period of time. Still going strong all these years on, the band have remained
Nadia Reid's music holds such a special place in the soundtrack of my life, her 2017 Preservation LP arriving in just the right form and feel to become inextricably bound to a strange and difficult and formative year. Her voice has that ability, a kind of gripping nature,
You only need to look at the two labels that have joined forces to welcome new music from Joni into the world, to capture a sense of the warm resonance, emotive care that ripples through her music. A brand new song released today, 'Avalanches' comes ribbon-bowed by the
Greg Mendez' breakthrough success over the past couple of years as felt as wholesome as it has surprising. Which is meant as no reflection on the quality of the music, more that it's heartening to know that there's still a space in this busy and
There are songs and voices that captivate you with surprise, and there are songs and voices that hold you in their grip for doing exactly what you expect, exactly what you need them to do. When Clara Mann's 'Til I Come Around begins, you hope for a
I can be grateful but still mad, I can be happy but oh so sad. Deep Feeler by Liv Greene Listen on GFP / Bandcamp *
Apologies for dropping off the radar for a little while there. After reaching 100+ posts I needed a little breather and figured most of you would have some catch-up listening to do... I spent the weekend wandering around Copenhagen, colourful Scandinavian buildings against mostly grey Autumnal skies, but strangely warm
As Dog In The Snow, Helen Ganya released some beautiful music from her Brighton home, the Scottish-Thai songwriter finding endlessly evocative ways of marrying sound and sentiment. In 2022 she released the polish the machine LP under her own name and via the Bella Union label, but was in fact
Though he's carved out a widely cherished and acclaimed career, I still think there's a world in which Damien Jurado is held in the very highest echelon's of those singer-songwriters that have outlasted the shift from the 90s independent scene to this ugly new
Since Wld Beasts called it a day back in 2017, both their two lead voices have crafted out solo careers, with Hayden Thorpe releasing under his own name and Tom Fleming sharing now three full-length efforts under his One True Pairing moniker. Led by his distinctive and unruly baritone, Fleming
You know where you are from the first aching note of Bridget Hayden's astonishing new album: steeped in drizzle, high upon a hill, looking out across weather-beaten moorland. That might feel a little too on-the-nose as descriptors go but those elements - the land, the weather - were
It seems a little silly to recommend the fleeting two-minute closing track as the choice pick from Barry Archie Johnson’s exquisite new album - especially when said LP is defined by its long and sprawling instrumental landscapes - but there’s enough magic in these brief glimpses of his
Tokyo label FLAU are one of those gems from the underground scene that I likely would never have stumbled upon if it weren't for GFP's own journey. We first covered them way back in time, I think initially with a wonderful album from Cuushe, which had
I remember thinking, when I first saw Porridge Radio play live, in a sweaty Lexington on a crisp cold London night, that they were probably the best "band" that the UK had to offer. And I mean band in that slightly redundant, old fashioned sense; a tight-knit group
Chicago's Friko came bounding into the new year with a gutsy, visceral throwback to early noughties indie rock. Armed with an album cover plucked straight from Conor Oberst's dusty old bookshelf, and the kind of warbling, teetering-on-the-edge voice that could shape the weather, their debut full-length
The cover of the new Caroline Says LP, released just last week, features Caroline Sallee caught in a double-exposure, the same face facing the same way but double-tracked, side by side with herself. On 'Always Looking Back', the album's centre-point and most compelling moment, both of
For reasons I don't need to start pulling apart today, I've been thinking a lot recently about the passing of time and how we mark and sometimes celebrate certain occasions. Births and deaths, chapters new and repeated; small milestones in a big old chunk of life.