Sometimes you have to change things up, and when the pandemic struck Darlingside had to figure out a new way to work, resulting in Everything Is Alive. The old ways of recording simply wouldn’t work, and with Don Mitchell, Auyon Mukharji, Harris Paseltiner and David Senft locked down hither and yon, a new approach was needed. They...
Developed in the aftermath of a sudden and difficult break-up, it could be easy to peg Madeline Kenney’s new album as one littered with ‘I miss you’s’ and ‘you hurt me’s’; the all too familiar break-up pop which pervades much of today’s chart-toppers. A New Reality Mind, however, is anything but. This is an album where ‘you’...
Allegra Krieger keeps throwing you for a loop, and every time you think you have her figured out, you haven’t a clue, which is what makes I Keep My Feet on the Fragile Plane such a fascinating experience. You think you’re playing checkers and she’s play chess. From gentle choices both instrumentally and vocally she throws in...
At 70, Lucinda Williams is a survivor, but Stories From a Rock N Roll Heart only tells half the tale. During the pandemic she lost her home in a tornado. If that wasn’t enough, she had a debilitating stroke months later. She has relearned how to walk, but playing the guitar currently isn’t in the cards. Still,...
Making a record can be a frustrating experience, it can take forever to record and along the way the magic is lost. Finding the magic was at the heart of Holler, The Watson Twins’ new album. Recorded in a matter of five days, with the band and Chandra and Leigh cutting it live in the studio, the...
Jason Isbell is an honest man, and his new album with the 400 Unit, Weathervanes, offers an unflinching look at the modern world with a sense of honesty one rarely sees. And like any honest man, he views himself and a world he doesn’t understand. Searching for answers, he tries to a way out of the morass...
There’s an air of playful, potential finality to Bruce Cockburn’s 38th studio album. It’s his first LP proper since 2017’s Bone On Bone, if you don’t include 2019’s instrumental Crowing Ignites. The influential Canadian troubadour may be a cult concern on our shores these days, nevertheless he’s headlining the Shepherd’s Bush Empire this summer. As he approaches his 80s,...
Every generation of the Collins family has been carved from the hills of the South Downs, and it is those hills that act as a silent partner and accompaniment for Archangel Hill, the third album that folk queen Shirley Collins has made for Domino Records, since her return to making music after a 40 year gap with...
Residing in a neighborhood where Captain Beefheart and 70s AM radio not only coexist but share the same turntable, Tim Rutili’s band Califone examines the strange landscape of villagers. It is, to say the least, an interesting trip, one where musique concrète coexists with the music of Marin County. Wrapping one’s head around Califone requires a different way...
Ghosts seem to haunt every second of Hannah Rose Platt’s Deathbed Confessions. Inhabiting a widescreen wonderland, Platt creates a landscape filled with both the horror and humor that haunts listeners. Her voice, a surprisingly flexible instrument, shades these recordings in ways that bring out the competing emotions in play. Her narratives, both surreal and sentimental, engage and...
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