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Dark Shores by Strand of Oaks A charming little indie folk and rock hybrid coming off this new Dark Shores album. Stream it via the widget above, or grab a CD copy on Bandcamp.
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Simon Joyner, one of the darker singer-songwriters to come out of the 90s, has a new album on the way this August titled Ghosts. “Vertigo” is the first track to drop from it, and it’s quite good. Simon is really pushing the instrumentation on this one–especially with the
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BALCONY by Balcony Check out this self-titled album from Montreal’s Balcony. It’s some wonderfully strange and creative acoustic music. While vocals and guitar take the lead, strange grooves, sequenced beats, and weird background vocals makes these tracks much more than your average “confessional” songwriter strumming away into oblivion.
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Hooray! The Mountain Goats has dropped a new track from the longstanding singer-songwriter project’s next album: Transcendental Youth. It’s no secret that John Darnielle and co. have been incorporating more and more instrumentation into the Mountain Goats’ sound, and they’re really acting like it by releasing a
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My buddy Zach at We Listen For You suggested this band from his back yard of Kentucky, Murals. Their new LP, On A Passing Cloud, didn’t really hit me at first, but a return listen has me enjoying quite a bit about their sound. Folk is most definitely a
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mickey’s dead by elvis depressedly South Carolinian Matt Cothran, a.k.a. Coma Cinema, a.k.a. Elvis Depressedly, has a new set of tracks out proving his worth as a sad, sad songsmith. He’s diversifying the sounds he works with as well, making use of more synths,
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On her first album in seven years, singer-songwriter Fiona refines her usual style into something simpler, but emotionally potent. WATCH THE REVIEW
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Visuals for the new Fiona Apple track “Every Single Night,” and they’re pretty disorienting, cutting between a series of strange situations involving Fiona in a hula outfit, Fiona covered in snails, and Fiona walking furiously within the vicinity of a giant squid monster. Gotta see it to believe it.
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The Tallest Man On Earth proves the power of consistency on his third full-length album. WATCH THE REVIEW
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I was hoping for a Grizzly Bear album this year, and it seems like I’m gonna get it. After a handful of solo projects since the release of the band’s 2009 album, Veckatimest, the band is back with a new single titled “Sleeping Ute.” I’m actually very
