Lives OutgrownAlbum by Beth GibbonsReleased 17 May 2024Chamber FolkLabel – DominoRating – 8/10 Bleakness and beauty combine to form a one-of-a-kind disposition. – A strained relationship with the concept of time finds itself at the heart of Beth Gibbons’ Lives Outgrown. Incited by the hopelessness associated with losing loved ones, the first album credited to […]
JavelinAlbum by Sufjan StevensReleased 6 October 2023Indie FolkLabel – Asthmatic Kitty The sound of heartbreak. – Sufjan Stevens’s tenth solo album has been released as a tribute to his partner, Evans Richardson, who passed away in April of this year. The true meanings of its individual contents, like Stevens himself, are private. The art distorts […]
The Greater WingsAlbum by Julie ByrneReleased 7 July 2023Singer-SongwriterLabel – Ghostly Heartbreak. – I first clung to the music of Julie Byrne through her 2017 album Not Even Happiness. I feel an uneasy nostalgia for the album; it is loaded with songs that project memories that have depleted, because they were once a beautiful in-the-now, […]
De todas las floresAlbum by Natalia LafourcadeReleased 28 October 2022Chamber folkLabel – SonyRating – 8/10 Natalia Lafourcade homages her heritage and proves her versatility. – Breakup songs, recovery songs, rewatering one’s flowers, De todas las flores is a self-proclaimed rejuvenation for Mexican singer-songwriter Natalia Lafourcade. Translating to “of all the flowers”, the album is not […]
MarchitaAlbum by Silvana EstradaReleased 21 January 2022Chamber FolkLabel – AWALRating – 8/10 Silvana Estrada is a rootsy devotee, a forward-thinking one, and a mighty talented singer-songwriter. – Appraisal of Silvana Estrada’s Marchita has principally recognised the young singer-songwriter’s elemental qualities, her primal abilities as a singer-songwriter; her enchanting voice, her nadir-proof penchant for writing about […]
A Beginner’s MindAlbum by Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De AugustineReleased 24 September 2021Indie FolkLabel – Asthmatic KittyRating – 8/10 Angelo De Augustine’s dream come true forms the most dreamlike album. – In 2017, I received an email from a PR person, asking me if I’d like to review ‘Swim Inside the Moon’, the Asthmatic Kitty […]
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