The candid lyricism of Carly Simon meets the easy listening vocalese of Fiona Apple on Lyndol Descant's new release.
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Music Review: We Are The West – ‘The Golden Shore’ Dishes Up Delicious Sounds
'The Golden Shore' dishes up a sweet coalescence of sound with that of space.
Read More »Music Review: Nathaniel Bellows – ‘Swan and Wolf’ Is Dreamy and Haunting
'Swan and Wolf' is one of those albums defined as starkly scrumptious, dreamy, and haunting.
Read More »SXSW Music Festival 2018: March 17 (Field Division, In the Valley Below, Lola Marsh, Wyldest, and More)
Even though there was technically one last night of South by Southwest 2018, it still seemed as if Saturday was the festival's one true finale.
Read More »Music Review: Kim Richey – ‘Edgeland’
There's a feeling of fine control you get when you listen to a Kim Richey album. Her songs dig outward in two directions from country/americana, into both folk and pop. And her silvery vocals, burnished with a constant, cool vibrato, lack twangy affectation, sounding almost weirdly non-manipulative – to paradoxically emotional effect.
Read More »SXSW Music Festival 2018: March 16 (Caroline Rose, Lo Moon, Soccer Mommy, Now, Now, and More)
Caroline Rose, Lucy Rose, and Soccer Mommy were among the Friday highlights at SXSW Music Festival 2018 on March 16 in Austin, Texas.
Read More »SXSW Music Festival 2018: March 15 (Sunflower Bean, Jade Bird, Kotomi, Salt Cathedral, Girl Ray, and More)
Jade Bird, Snail Mail, and Vita and the Woolf highlighted Thursday's music acts at SXSW 2018 in Austin, Texas.
Read More »SXSW Music Festival 2018: March 14 (Our Girl, Natalie Prass, Wye Oak, Billie Eilish, and More)
Flyte, Jerry Williams, and Billie Eilish were among the highlights at Austin's South by Southwest Music Festival 2018 on Wednesday, March 14.
Read More »Music Review: Magical Beasts – ‘When Love’s a Stranger’ EP/’Peninsula’ Evokes Gloom and Doom
The misery factor is contagious, leading the listener down into the abyss of calamitous unhappiness.
Read More »SXSW Music Festival 2018: March 11-12 (Wyldest, LIFE, Kaki King, Fenster, and More)
Kaki King, Wyldest, and Fenster were among the opening Monday night performers at SXSW Music Festival 2018 in Austin, Texas.
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