Paula Standing describes her new LP, The More I Give, as “a brief history of me.” Cut from the same tapestry as the likes of Dar Williams or Shawn Colvin, Standing’s folk is blended with subtle pop sensibilities and a whole lot of knowing—about life, and how she’s living it. Her artistic roots are grounded in magical...
Photo courtesy of Planetary Group Mark Jowett is Plain Mister Smith. A purveyor of the consummately offbeat, Jowett’s “Smith” project has enabled him to develop no-holds-barred indie pop. Replete with crunching guitar tones, dithering percussion, and a collection of captivating vocal structures, ‘The Rat’ is as unconventional as it is captivating. Featuring Jordan Klassen, Smith’s ‘Rat’ is...
One of the last gigs I went to pre-lockdown, in November 2019, was the magnificent Holy Moly and the Crackers in York. On the merchandise table afterwards, alongside the standard array of CDs and T-shirts, was a solitary copy of a book called Drunk Folk Stories bearing the familiar name of Beans on Toast. I didn’t buy...
by Duncan Martin • 15 August 2021 • Comments Off on Session | Rookling – Cases https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di9oG-fkVNg Today’s session comes from Rookling (aka Jem Bosatta) with ‘Cases’. Originally from England, Jem has been putting roots in Berlin for the past few years and we caught up with him as part of a trip back to his old home. During the pandemic...
Josienne Clarke has fought to be given the credit her work has deserved for years. It’s been exhausting and she admits that she had to be explicit in explaining how much her name and talent warranted recognition, as if she was being an arrogant megalomaniac for wanting it at all. Finally, on A Small Unknowable Thing, she...
In a world that often expects musicians to release the same record over and over again, LUMP are explorers on a mission forcing them through unexplored pathways, and Animal suggests that there is plenty of searching still left to be done. Initially thought to be a one off, Laura Marling and Tunng’s Mike Lindsay have structured a quest for...
Photo by Drew Rochotte Ben Stalets has seen his songwriting renaissance with Everybody’s Laughing. The album, due 27 August, was based less around a sound and more around a saying: “Collective suffering allows us to collectively suffer less.” It finds beauty both in irreverence, as well as sheer cerebral might, and oftentimes at once. Sonically, it plays...
Dot Allison will always be identified with the band that initially launched her career, One Dove, whose Andy Weatherall-produced album Morning Dove White became a downbeat electronic classic. Other collaborations include Kevin Shields, Hal David, Paul Weller, Pete Doherty and Darren Emerson, Massive Attack, Scott Walker, Slam, Philip Shepard, The Babyshambles and Pete Doherty. Her own subsequent...
“I don’t accept any limitations as a writer,” Laura Nyro said and no words have ever been truer, with the proof on display in the eight-disc collection of American Dreamer. The four albums she released from 1967 to 1970, (More Than a New Discovery, Eli and the 13th Confession, New York Tendaberry and Christmas and the Beads of Sweat) set a standard for musical complexity...
Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update had plenty to say about Donald Trump‘s election win Tuesday. For one, co-anchor Colin...
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