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 […]
How being ‘Kings of Middle of Nowhere’ helped inspire his latest album. When the time finally comes that we can look back on the pandemic, musical historians may well note that it proved fertile terrain […]
Pared-down, tangy East Coast Folk with a warm heart and wise head. One of the pandemic’s many effects on Americana music is there’s been a lot of introspective, person-with-acoustic-guitar-staring-out-from-their-back-porch kind of material getting published recently. […]
The connection here is as much about the music as it is the places where they were made as it is (sort of) the Scotch whisky. The writer of last week’s AUK Chain Gang song, […]
No matter how (un) crowded the market for throwback lo-fi surreal ‘folk’ music, Misophone shine in a league of their own. If ‘And So Sinks The Sun on a Burning Sea’ were a film and […]
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