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A new video from the new collaborative album between electronica producer Jon Hopkins and one of the UK’s more prolific singer-songwriters, King Creosote. I wouldn’t call myself an expert on either of these musicians, but I knew enough to be kind of surprised by the pairing. Hopkins’ and
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Goodbye Vibrations by Bill Baird Just when I thought my summer would blow by without falling in love with a singer-songwriter record, Bill Baird gets ready to drop a new LP. This guy is a Texan with numerous projects under his belt. The most widely acknowledged stuff he’s put
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From New York via New Zealand, Lips is the solo project of Stephanie Brown. Back in her homeland, she played keyboards in numerous groups, but came to the U.S. in ’07 to make a name for herself as a solo musician. She’s got an EP that she dropped
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On Bon Iver’s Bon Iver, the project opens the floodgates and welcomes in a sea of new instrumentation. Everything from clarinet to string arrangements are laced into these songs to widen the spectrum of sounds that were once so sparse four years ago on For Emma, Forever Ago. But
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On the Shivers’ More, the band’s frontman, Keith Zariello, comes off a little more lovesick than usual. The songs here deal with many flavors of love, but many of them don’t taste all that good. And intentionally so, because More doesn’t have a very positive outlook when
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MP3 It’s another track from the new Shivers album, More. Frontman Keith Zariello is sounding particularly sexy on this one, seriously. But there are a lot of layers to this track if we scratch below the shoulder-swaying grooves and corny lyrics. My first reaction to this song was a
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Singer-songwriter Basia Bulat premieres a new song, “It Can’t Be You,” through a new video on yourstru.ly. Basia’s latest album dropped last year. Here’s a review of it.
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MP3 Solo artists Thao–of Get Down Stay Down fame–and Mirah released a nice little record on Kill Rock Stars this week. It’s filled with co-written songs built on strummed guitars and breezy vocals. The two of ’em actually brought on tUnE-yArDs to co-produce some of the material
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When Sea Oleena dropped its first few releases, the quiet and understated songwriting of Charlotte Oleena was pretty decent, but nothing to write home about. But now, with a cleaner recording and some extra instrumentation, the project has matured a lot. Sea Loeena’s latest album, Sleeplessness, is both gentle
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Anna von Hausswolff is a Swedish singer-songwriter whose 2010 album, Singing From the Grave, went painfully unnoticed on our side of the pond. There was no physical release over here, so PR was probably limited. Anyway, there’s a bit of press fodder on the website of Anna’s label,
