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Chiseled mantra: Ksenia Parkhatskaya and Tara Nome Doyle reviewed
November 19, 2021
Tara Nome Doyle – Snail I
Genre: Singer-Songwriter, Indie Folk, Folk
Tara Nome Doyle writes otherworldly songs, meditations on life that offer listeners a brief respite from the real world and their responsibilities.
There’s no need in pretending…
The right moves : Rabbit and Karate, Guns & Tanning reviewed
November 12, 2021
Karate, Guns & Tanning – White Nights
Genre: Post-Punk
Karate, Guns & Tanning describe their own music as ferocious. That word conjures visions of hungry animals feeding on weaker creatures down in the jungle. In today’s musical climate, this may…
Sean Keel – Jesus a Rifle
Genre: Folk
Similar artists: Tom Waits, Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, John Prine, Tom Waits
Pop songwriting’s repertoire of tricks hasn’t exactly moved forward in the past decades. It has certainly widened though. Apart…
Melancholy melodies: Shaylee and Alberta & The Dead Eyes reviewed
September 28, 2021
Alberta & The Dead Eyes – Lil Bird
Genre: Americana
The majority of us live in fear or some form of confusion throughout most of our lives. We engage in various activities, oftentimes, merely to forget our troubles. Many of the things we do are simply a quick…
Old-time writing: Megan and Shane& My Son The Doctor reviewed by Alt77
September 25, 2021
My Son The Doctor – King of the Zoomers
Genre: Punk, Post-Punk, Indie Rock
There are some bands that are destined to sound like the work of people that weren’t quite meant to be in bands, yet don’t exactly seem fit for anything else. These are the rare…
Heartland: Women Of The Night and K. Walsh reviewed by Alt77
August 20, 2021
K. Walsh – Party Of One
Genre: Americana, Indie Rock, Alternative Rock
Daniel Romano, The Modern Lovers & Oasis
Like Rob, the main character in Nick Hornby’s epochal High Fidelity, you too dear reader will one day have to answer to your…
Old-time memory: Nathan Wiley and Deborah Stokol
August 10, 2021
Deborah Stokol – The Wife of Bath: Alysoun’s Tale
Genre: Indie Folk, Folk, Americana
I’m finally nearing the end of one of literature’s most famous novels, one that, granted, I should have probably read by now. That would have been sparred me a…
Evil’s going on: Salvo and daidrum reviewed by Alt77
July 29, 2021
daidrum – The New Witch Annie Izzard
Genre: Folk, Psychedelic Rock
It would only make sense that, after years of wandering in the wilderness, guitar music would return to its old ways and purpose. Once a method to tell stories and a way to congregate with…
Multi Ultra – Price I Pay
Typical bands will go through dozens of members, shifting personnel regardless of whether they achieve any type of commercial success or not. Bass players and lousy drummers are usually the culprits as they go missing, quit, or explode like…