Time stretching and pitch shifting depths. Luddites best stop reading now. The sixth album from Catalan folk artist Joana Serrat is a sonic tsunami. Turbulent changes in Serrat’s personal life along with challenging times in the […]
Somebody once told Erin Enderlin that she wrote sad bastard country music. She was delighted. There’s a Felice Brothers song with the lines “I put some whiskey in my whiskey/ I put some heartache into my […]
In the film ‘Cool Hand Luke’ (1967) Paul Newman’s character finally cracks under the weight of expectations from his fellow inmates, angrily crying out ‘Stop feeding off me!’ Forty years have passed since the release of […]
Evocative transmissions from alt-country pioneers. Stiv Cantarelli and Satellite Inn go way back. Back to when Ryan Adams was sharing a twelve-passenger rental van with a U-Haul trailer, while Tweedy and Farrar could just about amicably […]
Far from revolutionary but an undiminished return. Six years on from ‘I’ll be Your Girl’, The Decemberists are back on four sides with their ninth studio album. The second single ‘Joan in the Garden’ along with some band […]
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