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Luke O’Hanlon “The River Only Flows One Way”

June 9, 2025 Andy Davidson 0
An evocative, lyrical spate. Liverpudlian songwriter Luke O’Hanlon describes his third solo album as an “emotionally honest folk record, created over two years, a personal mediation on grief, identity and change”. He has spent the two […]
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Counting Crows “Butter Miracle, The Complete Sweets!”

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A jubilant return with all the fear that’s fit to print. Fading glory in Oklahoma, the modern panopticon of the surveillance state, “we are dissolving from night to morning and I want to believe in something”. […]
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Elena Loper “Weathervane Whale”

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Dream-folk debut displays the beguiling talents of this Pacific Northwest singer-songwriter. The eleven songs on “Weathervane Whale” were written and recorded during the lockdown years of the pandemic. Pacific Northwest artist Elena Loper used the enforced […]
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My Politic “Signs of Life”

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Music is the sign of life when other aspects of civilisation fail. With the USA still as much a sharply-divided country as it has been since the Obama years, you might expect a musical duo using […]
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Various Artists “Springsteen’s Country”

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Country covers of boss songs – reputations (just about) intact. It seems an artist only needs a handful of well-received, reasonably successful albums, a couple of sold-out tours and a full spec entry on AllMusic to […]

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For Hal Cannon, life should be very simple – love the place you live, love the ones you know, if you’re needy, why not give, then see if you’re still low. Words to live by, extracted […]
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Interview: Adam Levy on the Honeydogs celebrated return

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Experiencing a rebirth with Algebra for Broken Hearts, the St. Paul, Minnesota band’s twelfth album on Julian Records (2025), is crucial language, one voicing an undersung American existence. Like the novel, I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif […]

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