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The Gentleman Losers – Dustland [2009]
listen myspace try buy A most welcome, if somewhat overdue second album from Finnish duo The Gentleman Losers, whose eponymous debut set hearts aflutter in the summer of 2006. That first LP’s blend of dreamlike faux-vintage instrumentals is carried over to this new set of songs, but there there’s a noticeably heightened sense of depth to the writing on Dustland
Continue reading...Katie Herzig – Live In Studio Acoustic Trio [2009]
9. October 2009
listen myspace try buy In 2006, after eight years of fronting the critically acclaimed Colorado-based band, Newcomers Home, Katie Herzig moved to Nashville to strike it solo. Before leaving Colorado, she single-handedly recorded and produced Weightless, a tour-de-force of innovative sonics and songwriting. Since then Herzig’s song “Heaven’s My Home” received a 2007 Grammy nomination and she has steadily become a fixture in Nashville’s up-and-coming indie music scene.
Continue reading...Big Empty Field – Arteries and Intervals [2008]
9. October 2009
listen myspace try buy Big Empty Field formed on the Big Island of Hawaii in 1999. Originally conceived as a trio of two guitarists and a drummer, founding members Kiyoshi Najita and Kanoa Withington brought a wealth of both shared and contrasting musical influences together. Both sought to create an instrumental group with an emphasis on minimal, highly structured composition.
Continue reading...Christopher Prim – Clean House [2009]
9. October 2009
listen myspace try buy Once upon a time, deep in the woods of northern California, there lived a singer/songwriter named Christopher Prim, who liked to write and play music, and occasionally went to the trouble of recording it.
Continue reading...Waylon – Wicked Ways [2009]
9. October 2009
listen myspace try buy On stage he feels completely at home, a charismatic performer with a voice that sounds like it comes straight from the sixties and seventies, the age of Rock and Soul. He debuts with a record that was produced and played by the greatest team in popular music today. And his name is an homage to the man who inspired him most.
Continue reading...New Found Land – We All Die [2009]
9. October 2009
listen myspace try buy Between the mournful voice singer Anna Roxenholt and and Karl Krook’s gently strummed guitar, occasionally the Spartan melancholy tilts towards painfully beautiful–as with album highlight, “By Your Side”–which plays like a paean to the ghosts of relationships past, or like the perfect Once b-side.
Continue reading...Spiral Stairs – The Real Feel (2009)
9. October 2009
spiral stairs the real feel 2009 rock lix.in/RS buy at rough trade After a pair of albums under the group nom de plume Preston School Of Industry, Pavement co-founder Scott Kannberg, aka Spiral Stairs, makes his bona fide solo debut with an October 20 LP/CD/digital album release of ‘The Real Feel’ (OLE 858). Following an extended sojourn in Melbourne, Spiral returned to Seattle rejuvenated at the end of ‘08, and commenced recording with a collection of pals including members of PSOI, the Posies, guitarist Ian Moore, Gersey, and Broken Social Scene’s Kevin Drew
Continue reading...Jack Wesley Routh – Another Season [2009]
9. October 2009
listen myspace try buy Jack Wesley Routh has the extremely rare type of talent that led Johnny Cash to sign him the very first time Cash heard him. And now, more than 30 years later, the world will at last get to hear first-hand the music of the writer whose songs have long been recorded by superstars including Cash, Waylon Jennings, and Linda Ronstadt.
Continue reading...Washed Out – High Times [mirroruniversetapes, 2009]
9. October 2009
listen: Washed Out try: MF Label: mirror universe tapes buy: discogs Washed Out is Ernest Greene. His hazy electropop has been making waves the past few months and here he brings it out full force, along with some downtempo instrumentals. tracklist: 01.
Continue reading...The Tiny – Gravity and Grace [2009]
9. October 2009
listen myspace try buy “If Panda Bear moved to Sweden, started playing cello and fell in love with Joanna Newsom’s cousin, possessed by Kate Bush struck by lightning, this might be the outcome…” During their five years of existence, Sweden’s critically acclaimed power-folk duo The Tiny, consisting of the couple Ellekari and Leo, has stretched over deconstructed, minimal, acoustic music to grand gestures and orchestral arrangements. They have released two albums on their own label (with V2) and have toured extensively in Europe. Now they have their third LP – Gravity And Grace, coming produced by former bass player of “Talk Talk” – Paul Webb aka “Rustinman” (Beth Gibbons, James Yorkston..) to be released in Scandinavia October 14th 2009
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