folk
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What Song for Our Daughter lacks in experimentation it more than makes up for with its robust songwriting.
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With meandering melodies and directionless songwriting, Mount Eerie teams up with Julie Doiron for a sequel to 2008’s Lost Wisdom that pales in comparison to the original.
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Big Thief’s second album of 2019 takes the band’s sound back to basics, which is far from a bad thing.
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Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest is a wonderfully charming singer-songwriter project held back by a somewhat bloated tracklist.
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In League with Dragons is missing just about everything that has made past Mountain Goats albums so great.
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U.F.O.F. is mostly listenable—if a bit derivative—indie folk with a few flashes of brilliance sprinkled throughout the tracklist.
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Quiet Signs is a meager helping of Jessica Pratt’s pretty and subtly psychedelic style of folk songwriting.
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Though an improvement on his previous solo effort, Kurt Vile’s new album could have used some trimming.
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The two-disc Scars of Man finds Panopticon separating the black metal and American folk elements of his music, rendering it generic.
