Best of 2016 – #5 Pauline Andrès – The Heart Breaks (self-released) Brash, vitriolic and triumphant, Pauline Andrès’ The Heart Breaks wears its title on its sleeve, reminding us in spades what’s been missing from Americana music for years. Read…
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With 2016 at the halfway point, this week’s playlist is a collection of our favorite singles and songs from albums reviewed so far this year (in alphabetical order by song title for the sake of objectivity).
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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Channeling American counterculture icon Steve McQueen, Berlin-based singer/songwriter Pauline Andrès didn’t require Dale Earnhardt Jr. to appear in the celluloid-worthy video for her new single. A sullen Hollywood tale of escapism, “Drive Like Steve McQueen” finds Andrès at her best,…
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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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Occupying a musical landscape that spans from West Virginia’s underground veins of coal to the dust-blown Texas Panhandle, Pauline Andrès has inhaled the rural musical soot and smoke of the country’s past by way of Berlin, Germany, exhaling an acrid…
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