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