Album Reviews
Tobacco City “Tobacco City, USA”
Laidback, cool, West Coast country from a new Gram and Emmylou. It’s strange how a pedal steel can evoke thoughts of either a deep south dive bar full of rednecks or a trippy night at San […]
Year: 2021
Videos
Video: The Delevantes “Little By Little”
Part of the bedrock of alt.country, the Delevantes make a welcome return with a brand new single, ‘Little By Little‘ ahead of the album, ‘A Thousand Turns‘. Brought up in a working-class New Jersey family, brothers […]
Album Reviews
Leah Shaw “Play Beautifully”
A complex, painful theme handled with elegance, honesty and power. When an album centres on a single theme, one key question is whether they can sustain the listener’s interest throughout on that subject. In this case, […]
Columns
Shuffle: Australia – Part 1
I recently took the plunge and purchased a load of new music from Bandcamp, and one thing that I noticed was that there were a lot of Australian bands, which got me thinking about my interactions […]
Album Reviews
Orion Walsh “So Many Places to See”
Enjoyable, narrative songs, just lacking that something extra in a year of great music. Orion Walsh has released seven albums over the last decade. His press assures us that ‘So Many Places to See’ is “brimming […]