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Daniel Norgren “Wooh Dang” (Superpuma Records, 2019)

July 8, 2019 Harold Hogan 0

The opening to ‘Wooh Dang‘, Swedish musician Daniel Norgren’s eighth record, drifts dreamily into focus. With a mixture of birds and ambient nature sounds, as well as strange sci-fi noises, it sounds like a BBC sound […]

Fruit Bats “Gold Past Life” (Merge Records, 2019)

July 8, 2019 Paul Kerr 0

Essentially a vehicle for Eric D. Johnson, a sometime member of The Shins, Fruit Bats deliver their first album for Merge Records with a fizzy, at times sugary, flourish. The 11 songs here are bathed in […]

Chris Gantry “Nashlantis” (Drag City, 2019)

July 5, 2019 Jeremy Searle 0

Chris Gantry, despite being in his late seventies and on the music scene since the Sixties, is probably not a name known to many people, despite having had more than a hundred of his songs covered […]

Rod Picott “Tell The Truth & Shame The Devil” (Broken Jukebox Media, 2019)

July 5, 2019 Russell Murphy 0

This is Rod Picott’s third album in almost as many years, but this one is a little different to his previous recent efforts. Songs on ‘Tell The Truth and Shame The Devil’ were written after a serious […]

David Picco “Out of the Past” (Independent, 2019)

July 4, 2019 Elise Kennedy 0

David Picco’s new album ‘Out of the Past’ draws on influences from Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen – with an added rockabilly edge to the alt-country sound: what some listeners might describe as heartland soul. The ten […]