Molly Drake by Molly Drake Turns out the legendary Nick Drake had a musical mother as well! Molly Drake is a collection of 19 songs, written and recorded at home in the 50s. Five of them are available for stream on her BandCamp page, and they consist solely of simple,
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Beatsmith Hot Sugar drops a demo for the track “And the walls came tumbling down.” The dreary and emotive piano playing sampled on the track was originally featured in this video, but it seems to have now made it into a full-fledged beat, which is getting a release on the
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Austrian singer-songwriter Soap&Skin drops a new video in promotion for her latest single, which comes on the tail of an intense and forlorn sophomore album that I loved last year. “Sugarbread” features the same vocal stylings, but it’s incredibly heavy with organ and orchestral hits of brass
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A dark song and an even darker video for the Gem Club tune “252,” which comes off the project’s new album, Breakers. It’s out now on Hardly Art.
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On her latest album, singer-songwriter Kate Bush creates a winter wonderland loaded with metaphors dealing in love, loss, and age. WATCH THE REVIEW
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Dam Mantle is the solo effort of Glasgow producer Tom Marshallsay. I caught this track as the 405’s “Track of the Day,” and it’s not hard to see why. The first and obvious observation to make is that this track is a bit of a departure from the
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MP3 Taking inspiration from the American Civil War, Goldmund’s latest album is a series of piano-interpreted folk songs from that era. “Shenandoah” is the first song to drop from the album, and it glimmers with beauty and hope. The acoustic guitar playing–which is a surprising and welcome addition
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From the forthcoming album Dropped Pianos, which will be dropped via Kranky on October 10th, here’s a new track from Tim Hecker: “Sketch 5.” The Canadian ambient and experimental music producer released a new album earlier this year. I loved and reviewed it.
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A new track and video from Texas’ Strange Boys. I fell for these guys back when they were more of a garage rock band, but the outfit’s latest album, Be Brave, showed a transition occurring. It wasn’t the smoothest of changes, but the ‘Boys were admirably branching out
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Recently uploaded to SoundCloud, here’s a new track from Sampha. If you’re a regular viewer of my reviews, you may remember this UK singer-songwriter from his vocal features on the new SBTRKT album, which grows on me with each listen. On “Indecision,” people who were introduced to this
