Before sending your children out into the black tomorrow for Halloween, play them “Sweet Little Boy,” the debut single from Kaleidoscopia (Sasha Vallely). A tender lullaby to her 18-month old son, your children too will feel the love conjured by…
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Released in the US last year, looking back it was romantic but at the time i was suffocating, the sophomore release from Denver, Colorado’s Kissing Party, will be reissued in Europe on 2 November. Packed with infectious kernels of self-appointed…
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Tell me about yours And I will tell you mine Inspired by Mary Oliver’s poem “Wild Geese,” Weatherman pianist/vocalist Annie Higgins wrote the music and lyrics to the trio’s latest single of the same name. A serene piano ballad, Higgins,…
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A lo-fi twist on Harry Chapin’s “Cat’s in the Cradle,” Liverpool singer/songwriter Ali Ingle offers up some harsh fatherly truths on “Hey Kid.” Following on 2014’s A Life Unlike Yours, the blunt “Hey Kid” is the first single from Ingle’s…
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Currently at work on the follow up to last year’s All Them Ghosts, singer/songwriter Pauline Andrès and band kill time by recording classic songs that fit within her oeuvre. Beginning with “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” from Hank Williams,…
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Viewing the rebirth of hallowed ground from afar, Philadelphia’s Manwomanchild returns home, taking the MBTA Green Line to survey the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston for reassurance. A Brit Lit primer on gentrification featuring twee guitars and Robyn Hitchcock-esque lyrics,…
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Ranking as one of my most anticipated releases of this year, American Fiction from West Virginia’s Ona has finally arrived. The waltzing title track sets the tone of the album, with airy but tight arrangements as on the weeping “Tornado…
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How quickly a contrarian view of life can change when forced to address impending middle age and the threat of premature mortality. Such is the crux of At 35, the new 7″ release from Chicago’s The Gunshy. Composed of four…
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Were one given no background information, “Dead Empires” could easily be mistaken for a guitar-heavy b-side from Depeche Mode’s 1983 album Construction Time Again. Fast forward more than three decades to welcome a fresh take on a classic sound — originating…
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During the last year, Brooklyn’s Wilder Maker has issued a trilogy of EPs consisting of folk-tinged tales of love, lives and hope. With the release of Everyday Crimes Against Objects Of Desire, Vol. III, singer/songwriter Gabriel Birnbaum, Will Graefe (lead…
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