Tag: Best New Music
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Matthew Ryan gets RAW with new video series
Matthew Ryan is doing something that I really like. Taking his songs and giving us intimate and unique versions of them by recording them in (so far) intimate and unique locations.
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(The) Slowest Runner (in all the World) leave me without words
Bands with long overly wordy song titles. I don’t know who started this…Well, I found one place where these bastardy named songs work.
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Just something I’m listenting to, the lovely Julie Fader.
Just something in the form of Julie Fader’s “Outside In” album that was released from Hand Drawn Dracula this past September. It is a great album that I find comparisons of Julie’s vocals to…
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Second track from Molina & Johnson released: “Almost Let You In”
Being a huge fan of this style of singer songwriter performance – and especially Will Johnson and Jason Molina..frick, match made in indie heaven. Highly Recommended.
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My winding path to Matthew Ryan’s Dear Lover album
I am sure it is not a secret, but most of you might now that I am a huge fan of Matthew Ryan. There are the immediate reasons, he has many of those late night hushed songs that just hit home for me.
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Tobacco Pat returns to finalize his EP Trilogy – The Destroyer
…a penchant for providing me with EPs of dark Americana tinged singer songwriter projects. The third and final installment of his “Apocalypse” series…falls into place quite nicely.
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We all make rash statements and jump the gun at times…
The new Matthew Ryan album is growing on me something fierce. Look for a full post on the new album soon, but I just wanted to mention it.
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The world is a very small place. End result, Cam Penner is on my radar.
The world is small and déjà vu and/or coincidences happen all the time. Let me entertain you with a few facts that may seem not so much coincidental as simply true…
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Best New Music. Okay Best New Almost Released Music: James Vincent McMorrow
I am clearly a fan of all things that consist of the unhurried tempo, but it still has to be good. Sometimes when you listen, it happens to be great.
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On Tap: Viburnum: no, not the beer, the album by Oweihops. Again, not the beer.
Despite what you think, instead of this being a sparkling review of a great micro brew, it is in fact a stunning review of the best folk coming out of North East USA. I have been holding onto reviewing this album and as you can see by the post title, I must have been struggling…
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Nineteen Year Old Swedish Sisters!! This is not spam, it’s “Taxi Taxi!”
Okay, lame post title I know – but seriously, how is “19-year old Swedish sisters” not something you get in public email spam filters? Seriously though, the subject of this post are folk diva sister’s from Stockholm, Sweden and they have quirky, tragic, fun, heartbreaking folk pop simply oozing from them. Comparable to Calgary’s own…
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Do Not Forget! J. Tillman’s “Year In The Kingdom” officially available today!
So, my dears, my favourite artist releases his album in physical form next week, but today you can purchase digitally, so GO PURCHASE already! The track Earthly Bodies is below, but don’t forget you can download “Though I Have Wronged You” over at Stereogum HERE. Stunning album and will be a top album of the…