Alan Fitter

The Texas Gentlemen “Floor It!!!” (New West, 2020)

July 17, 2020 Alan Fitter 0

Trying to describe the music of The Texas Gentlemen is akin to nailing a blancmange to the wall. Even in the press release for their second album ‘Floor It!!!’ (sic) it states, “The album contains woozy, brass-fuelled […]

Town Meeting “Make Things Better” (Independent, 2020)

June 25, 2020 Alan Fitter 0

‘Make Things Better’ is the third full-length album from the Boston based band and what a superb album it is full of fresh sounding, sublime harmonies and superb playing from a band that would be just […]

Uncle Sinner “Trouble Of The World” (Independent, 2020)

June 4, 2020 Alan Fitter 0

Judging by the title of his first three albums, ‘Ballads And Mental Breakdowns’, ‘A Pocketful Of Glass Eyes’ and ‘Let The Devil In’, Michael Bodner who records as Uncle Sinner must have been to some dark […]

Peter Oren “The Greener Pastures” (Western Vinyl, 2020)

April 24, 2020 Alan Fitter 0

Peter Oren’s latest album ‘The Greener Pastures’ with its mentions of death, being fenced in, loneliness, isolation, phone dependence and its overall melancholic tone, could be seen as a prophet and seer in this age of […]

Trudy & Dave “Out Of Our Minds” (Blue Mood Records, 2020)

April 8, 2020 Alan Fitter 0

Trudy & Dave’s debut album ‘Out Of Our Minds’ isn’t accurately speaking Americana as the band hail from Norway but Norwayicana doesn’t really work as a category (and is impossible to say) so if you’re looking […]