A kaleidoscope of sound cocoons impressionistic lyrics in ‘psychotropic folk’ album. ‘The Beautiful Undead’ is the fifth album from the The Deer, a quintet from Austin, Texas. It is a confection of poetic pop music and […]
April Moon are that rare thing – a Canadian duo from the prairie province of Saskatchewan who are currently based deep in the heart of Americana UK land. Liverpool. Liverpool UK. Jaime April & Jason Moon […]
“Gonna be some sweet sounds // Comin’ down, on the nightshift,” sings Bruce Springsteen on his latest single and, indeed, this does sound so sweet. Beginning and ending with a bulb’s atmospheric glow, the Thom Zimny-directed […]
Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader. We are having our annual writers’ get-together this week in Liverpool, our first since Covid – if you see a group of middle-aged men standing around […]
Sturgill Simpson has taken americana to new places – some of them not always comfortable ones. His 2019 synthesised psychedelic blues-rock album ‘Sound and Fury’ certainly divided opinion. However, ‘Metamodern Sounds in Country Music’ was a much more widely […]
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