I’ve been told the life you live isn’t always the life you choose Ain’t it funny how many words rhyme with lose There’s a new voice this side of the horizon and it goes by the name Brian Combs. Approaching…
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Steeped in heartache and Mexi-Cali dust, The Heart Breaks is the album Pauline Andrès was born to write. Bearing the brunt of pain on songs such as “No Tienes Corazón” and the Bakersfield-inflected “If It’s Over”, Andrès exacts lyrical revenge…
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Singing in hushed whispers, North Carolina’s Jeremy Squires is careful not to disturb the ghosts occupying his latest album, Shadows. Maintaining a detached repose, Squires weaves tales of heartbreak and death on songs such as “Carry You” and “Hourglass,” with…
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Picking up where they left off on 2012’s Midwest Mess, Cincinnati’s Alone at 3AM chronicle rust belt malaise on Show the Blood. The quintet of Max Fender, Sarah Davis, Christopher Mueller, Andy Hittle and Joey Beck retreat from the strained…
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Following a rebranding, Nashville’s Benchmarks (née Todd Farrell & the Dirty Birds) mark their debut with the six-song American Night. A mix of old and new, the youthful yearning of 2013’s All Our Heroes Live in Vans remains on opener…
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The Proust of the proletariat, Kill County continues to recount days past, chronicling man’s undoing by no foibles of his own; geography, bad luck and degraded social stations inhabit Broken Glass in the Sun, the band’s follow up to 2013’s…
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A reluctant soul, Daniel Markham spends the bulk of time recusing himself from society and relationships on his latest opus, Pretty Bitchin’. Forever juggling his penchant for doom rock with the more polished sound of mid-’90s alternative pop, Markham channeled…
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Released on 1 August, the self-titled debut EP from singer/songwriter Emma Swift shows her native Australia is ahead of the curve. Nominated by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) for Best Country Album only two months after its release, Emma…
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Having detailed tales of regional strife and familial love on their debut, Killing Days, Boston’s American Thread mine a vein of nostalgia that comes with age on Songs in the War, their sophomore release. Taking a macro approach to the…
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From the sonic wash of “Rain,” the first single from Fjord Explorer‘s debut album, I Know I’m Awake, one knows this will not be a standard acoustic affair. The Jacksonville, Florida foursome’s self-described “gloom folk” dabbles in human emotion and frailty….
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Filled with escapism and youthful indifference, SUSTO, the self-titled debut from Charleston, South Carolina’s SUSTO was borne from singer/songwriter Justin Osborne’s travels following the break up of his former band, Sequoyah Prep School. Escapism from locales (opener “Black River Gospel”),…
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Any mention of Fair City Lights, the debut album from Lexington, Kentucky’s Josh Nolan, will certainly — and fairly — note comparisons to early Springsteen. If not for Nolan’s voice alone, one listen to “‘Til the Words Run Out” with its E Street…
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