Columns
Shuffle: Ed Kuepper
I recently read that Ed Kuepper was releasing three new compilations spanning his career and as I have never met anyone who is a fan of Ed Kuepper… scratch that, I have never met anyone who […]
Articles by David Cowling
Columns
Shuffle: Funeral Music
These dark days of the global pandemic have not in any way increased the number of times I think about the music I want to be played at my funeral. I have been thinking about it […]
Columns
Introducing “Shuffle”
Long-time AUK writer David Cowling returns with a new fortnightly column as he digs into his collection of leftfield americana. There are moments in my life when I have connected directly with a song or a […]
Album Reviews
Sarah Louise “Deeper Woods” (Thrill Jockey, 2018)
This is a record that is wrapped in layers. There’s Sarah Louise’s guitar playing, her voice, and vibes and strings, all melded together to give a kind of pointillist vision of the nature that surrounds her […]
Album Reviews
Hannah Sanders and Ben Savage “Awake” (Sungrazing Records, 2018)
For their second record together, Sanders and Savage continue to mix ethereal traditional folk with dabs of colour from across the musical spectrum. The mix of six originals and five covers offer no easy distinction between […]