Lyndon Bolton

Darlingside “Fish Pond Fish” (Thirty Tigers, 2020)

October 9, 2020 Lyndon Bolton 0

Darlingside are all about four-part harmonies around a swirl of string arrangements. Whether studio album or performing live that is how they have honed their unique sound described as “baroque folk”. If that sounds rather abstract […]

The Menzingers “From Exile” (Epitaph, 2020)

September 23, 2020 Lyndon Bolton 0

Artists have responded to lockdown in many ways. After their Australian tour stopped abruptly in March The Menzingers turned their creative juices to existing work. Stuck at home the band wanted to document how working musicians […]

Will Johnson “El Capitan” (Keeled Scales, 2020)

September 11, 2020 Lyndon Bolton 0

Musician, writer and painter Will Johnson, one of Americana’s most prolific creative spirits, has released his seventh solo album, ‘El Capitan’. Stripped back hardly does justice to the sparseness of this recording. It is just him, […]

Mighty Brother “The Rabbit, The Owl” (Independent, 2020)

July 31, 2020 Lyndon Bolton 0

This double album promises to explore the “emergent theme of duality”. Taken together the two records probe the same concepts from different perspectives. ‘The Rabbit’ is joyful mix of indie rock, folk and some funk. ‘The […]

Steven Bruce “Same Time, Same Place, Same Station” (Independent, 2020)

July 23, 2020 Lyndon Bolton 0

Fredericksburg, VA country rocker Steven Bruce’s debut album mixes cosmic country with a Waylon swagger and Petty riffs, all in a voice pitched between John Prine and Lukas Nelson. Bruce draws most of his writing from […]