Alasdair Fotheringham

Van Darien “Levee” (Independent, 2020)

May 4, 2020 Alasdair Fotheringham 0

In the (highly recommended) film ‘Still Crazy’, as plans forged by the 1970s British psychedelic rock group Strange Fruit for a comeback tour run headfirst into a morass of cliched band problems like XXXL egos, deep-rooted […]

AUK’s Chain Gang: Guy Clark “Cold Dog Soup”

April 21, 2020 Alasdair Fotheringham 0

Connections between James McMurtry, last week’s AUK Chaingang link, and Guy Clark – no longer with us, but who started out writing around 20-25 years before – are multiple and powerful. Both are key figures in […]

Slow Parade “Hi-Fi LowLife” (Independent, 2020)

March 26, 2020 Alasdair Fotheringham 0

From the moment ‘Hi-Fi Lowlife’s opening track ‘Waiting on the Smoke to Clear’ kicks off with a swirling blast of electronic fuzziness, only for a set of gently resonating piano chords to carve through the aural smog […]

Frazey Ford “U Kin B The Sun” (Arts & Crafts, 2020)

February 28, 2020 Alasdair Fotheringham 0

After starting out with the retro folk band the Be Good Tanyas, for her third solo album since 2010, Vancouver-based artist Frazey Ford has all but completely eliminated the Americana influences that permeated her previous two […]

Katie Blount “Dark Water” (Independent, 2020)

February 17, 2020 Alasdair Fotheringham 0

‘Dark Water’ is a tough album to review, but for a reason that does British singer-songwriter Katie Blount’s nine-track debut no discredit whatsoever. The “problem” is that while ‘Dark Water’ packs several punches of the folk-tinged […]