Album Reviews
Adult Karate “Indoors” (Plug Research, 2017)
This might be a hard sell, and to be straight from the outset there is not a shred of what most people would define as Americana in this release. Nor is there a touch of roots, […]
Album Reviews
Album Reviews
Amelia Curran “Watershed” (Six Shooter Records, 2017)
Canadian singer-songwriter Amelia Curran utilises folk, country and pop in fine fashion. Her roving artistic style showing hints of Nashville famed acts Beth Nielsen Chapman and Rosanne Cash, and on the song No More Quiet I […]
Album Reviews
Antenna Man “Elaine Jr” (Independent, 2016)
Modest indie-rock with a speckling of Americana used to be a staple of the records that we reviewed, but lately there’s been a recalibration towards authenticity, the kind that comes from beards it seems. Well Antenna Man […]
Album Reviews
Coco Hames “Coco Hames” (Merge, 2017)
When a new name passes in front of us, we like to be able to say, oh yes she’s that kind of performer. Listening to this first record from Coco Hames I’m left with a good […]
Album Reviews
Those Lavender Whales “My Bones are Singing” (Fork & Spoon Records, 2017)
There is a backstory to My Bones Are Singing, and although it’s not explicitly spelt out at any point on the album it’s so relevant that it can’t really be ignored. Before recording My Bones are […]