Almost every time I have to write an AUK Chain Gang feature it seems to involve drinking – not because I need to imbibe while I’m working, although it has been known – but it just […]
Captivating third solo album from the Ben Folds Five drummer – brilliantly observed and intimate tales of heartache and happiness, with warm arrangements and swelling strings. US singer-songwriter, Darren Jessee, is arguably better known for drumming […]
Well-worn and forgettable AOR songs that come from where the streets have no name. ‘Out of the Heart of Darkness’ is the third album by California’s L.A. Edwards – main songwriter/ frontman, Luke Andrew Edwards, and […]
Pared-down, guitar-led folk, blues and country instrumentals that could be film soundtracks – beautiful, yet occasionally unsettling. Cinematic is an overused term in music reviewing but in the case of Portland-based guitarist Marisa Anderson’s latest instrumental […]
Anyone for a folk-gospel-blues-hip-hop Afrofuturist concept album set in a post-apocalyptic world destroyed by climate change? Jake Blount’s first release for the classic Smithsonian Folkways label was conceived, written and recorded during the darkest months of […]
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