Bright FutureAlbum by Adrianne LenkerReleased 22 March 2024Singer-SongwriterLabel – 4ADRating – 9/10 My heart has been stolen by a big thief. – I have never questioned the emotional realism of Adrianne Lenker’s art and I’m not about to start – the only thing I have done and am now about to do even more is […]
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 […]
Hole In My HeadAlbum by Laura Jane GraceReleased 16 February 2024Singer-Songwriter / Folk PunkProduced by Laura Jane GraceRating – 7/10 A brief, nostalgic record with a penchant for simplistic rage. – It’s been ten years since Against Me released Transgender Dysphoria Blues. Even pre-released, the album was the most pivotal in the Florida punk band’s […]
I’ve Got MeAlbum by Joanna SternbergReleased 30 June 2023Singer-SongwriterLabel – Fat PossumRating – 9/10 Joanna Sternberg’s endearing second album. – I’ve been scared to review I’ve Got Me, not because I find the album itself – or Joanna Sternberg – intimidating, or that I’m generally cowardly (I am, but that’s unrelated); but because it has […]
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, […]
Toil and TroubleAlbum by Angelo De AugustineReleased 30 June 2023Singer-Songwriter / Indie FolkProduced by De AugustineRating – 8/10 A decipherable heart. – Angelo De Augustine strikes me as a shy person. He sings shyly, his arrangements are thin with delicate tremors, but he emotes without shyness, discernible throughout fourth album Toil and Trouble. Much of […]
Why Does the Earth…Album by Kara JacksonReleased 14 April 2023Folk / Singer-SongwriterLabel – SeptemberRating – 8/10 Natural wisdom. – No poet is a voiceless singer. Kara Jackson – former Youth Poet Laureate of the United States – has lived her dream of releasing a full studio album, courtesy of Why Does the Earth Give Us […]
Henry St.Album by The Tallest Man on EarthReleased 14 April 2023Singer-Songwriter / Indie FolkLabel – Anti-Rating – 6/10 Kristian Matsson’s heart comes with compromises on Henry St. – For much of Kristian Matsson’s career, he has been a solitary musician. His earlier work – his self-titled EP and debut full-length Shallow Grave – bows to […]
The Ruby CordAlbum by Richard DawsonReleased 18 November 2022Progressive FolkLabel – DominoRating – 8/10 – The entirety of the first half of The Ruby Cord – the latest album by Newcastle singer-songwriter Richard Dawson – is dedicated to The Hermit. A forty-one-minute suite, this divinely ambitious piece assembles and proceeds from Dawson’s fatherly devotion. Its […]
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 […]
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