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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,
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One of my trusty Needle Drops turned me on to this very pretty music from singer-songwriter Lia Ices. She’s got a new album coming out on Jagjaguwar on 1/25, and you can dig on two tacks from it below. Bon Iver actually supplies guest vocals on the track
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Video from the Tallest Man On Earth for the track “Love Is All.” It comes from the album the Wild Hunt, which is out now via Dead Oceans. –
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“Only Existing Footage” is the latest single from John Darnielle’s side project, the Extra Lens. Think “Day For Night” done over in an acoustic retelling. The lyrics are as sharp and, well, detailed as ever. The lighting glare and runaway script girl will make you glad you aren’t
