SEE: Laura Veirs – ‘Turquoise Walls’: the late-night blue (-green)s rendered Americana heartbreak
PORTLAND songstress Laura Veirs, who has been delighting our ears for a full 21 years now with her beautifully judged and melodious Americana, is readying herself for the release of her eleventh studio set for Bella Union, My Echo, which is due in the shops on October 23rd. Having shared a video for “Burn Too …
SEE: The Last Dinosaur’s ‘Wholeness & The Implicate Order’ now has a short film
THE LAST DINOSAUR is the musical nom-de-plume of Jamie Cameron, of whom we said the following when he first trailed “Wholeness & The Implicate Order” last month; and which we unashamedly reproduce herein. “THERE is out there, in the wide pantheon of pop, a neat little galaxy reserved for the absolute auteur, the sort of …
TRACK: Skinshape – ‘The Sun’: shimmering Afro-Anglo guitars trail fifth LP
SKINSHAPE, the London-by-way-Dorset recording artist, is all set to drop his fifth album for Lewis Recordings on the first Friday in September. If you’ve been over to Skinshape’s world before, you’ll know to expect an interesting peregrination through downtempo, psych, soundtracks, African influences and some pretty damn fine guitar playing. You’ll recognise his warm, reverbed …
Laura Fell – ‘Bone Of Contention’: a bruised acoustic lament from a stunning new voice
IF YOU’RE at all down with female acoustic songwriting – and I mean from any colour of the spectrum, from Laura Marling through to Aldous Harding, Gillian Welch through to Vashti Bunyan, Nadia Reid through to Marissa Nadler; then be prepared to add Londoner Laura Fell to your list of chanteuserie swoons. Laura, a psychotherapist …
ALBUM REVIEW: Ezra Feinberg and John Kolodij – ‘Ezra Feinberg and John Kolodij’: four deep acoustic atmospheres
YOU MAY know the names involved in this self-titled collaborative LP, brought to you by the twin instrumental and exploratory talents of Ezra Feinberg and John Kolodij; you may not. But if you have any interest in the more textured zone where post-rock has bumped into its good friend, post-classical, even out-folk; the world of …
PREMIERE: Babe, Terror – ‘Salina Lumen’: Caretaker-style eerieness from a locked-down São Paulo
BABE, TERROR, the nom-de-musique of São Paulo’s Claudio Szynkier, is a serious sort of name. That juxtaposition: your babe, your loved one, terror. Oh. … but then these are serious times, and if you think we’ve got it bad in the UK currently, then try the Brazil of the Brazil of an emergent populist, Covid-denying …
TRACK: hear the synth disco of Mort Garson’s ‘Dragonfly’ ahead of Sacred Bones’ reissues
MORT GARSON is a name that’s intoned with due gravity by those who know. Hailing from Canada with an interest of the sounds of early circuitry-based music and a penchant for conceptual albums – concerning witchcraft, the zodiac, even music to help plants grow: to the sort of people you find in the kitchen bathtub …
TRACK: El Michels Affair – ‘Dhuaan’/’Sha Na Na’: 60s’ exotica brilliance from Big Crown
BROOKLYN’S Big Crown – well, in short, they’ve only gone and done it again. The label of love which just keeps producing cracking little 7″s for lovers of exotic and retro soul, funk and grooves – in short, the kinda 7″ you only usually find when you’re digging in the crates in your dreams, records …
TRACK: Bill Callahan – ‘Ry Cooder’: a track for a legend, the penultimate ‘gold’
WE REALLY are that far down the line toward the end of the summer. Bill Callahan has released a track for Monday for nine consecutive weeks now ahead of Gold Record on September 4th, and we really are that close to autumn. His penultimate single drop comes in the shape of “Ry Cooder”: a meandering …
ALBUM REVIEW: Floodlights – ‘From A View’: another great Antipodean guitar salvo
IF THERE’S one area of the world that has always seemed to have had a dialogue and a response to a certain strain of British indie guitarpop, it’s been Australia and New Zealand. Witness the Flying Nun scene and related bands that brought so much to our ears in the late 1980s: The Chills, The …