Swedish sisters Klara and Johanna Söderberg return with their second full-length album, a collection of simple indie-folk songs which feature their well-matched vocals above all else. Beyond the lyrics and the songwriting — none of the lyrics are particularly groundbreaking — their voices are the real draw on this album. They’ve been . . . → Read More: First Aid Kit, “The Lion’s Roar”
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Chicago-by-way-of-Iowa band Death Ships returns with their first full length album since their 2006 debut. Circumstantial Chemistry is more of a straight-up pop rock album than their previous efforts. Gone is the acoustic guitar of singer/bandleader Dan Maloney, and for the most part, gone are most of the country folk tinges that . . . → Read More: Death Ships, “Circumstantial Chemistry” Marissa Nadler’s latest self-titled release, her fifth full-lenth album, pushes her music further out of her usual box of sparse, dreamy folk and into something a little more fully realized. Stand-out tracks like “Baby I Will Leave You in the Morning” bring a full band sound to the album, yet still fit well . . . → Read More: Marissa Nadler, “Marissa Nadler” Reviewers of Gillian Welch’s The Harrow & The Harvest seem to fall into two broad camps so far: reviewers who are delighted to get more of what they love about Welch’s music, and reviewers who expect Welch and Rawlings to evolve past what they’ve done for the last twenty years and who then express . . . → Read More: Album Review: Gillian Welch, “The Harrow & The Harvest” Once upon a time, I was headed off to see Wilco in Bend, Oregon. As I tend to do, I checked to see who was opening, because I tend to get a lot more enjoyment out of concerts if I’m at least a little familiar with what I’m about to see. Opening for Wilco . . . → Read More: Album Review: Fleet Foxes, “Helplessness Blues” |
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Recommended Reading/(Not Really An) Album Review: NY Mag on Wilco’s The Whole Love
So. New Wilco album. I didn’t get it the day it came out — there aren’t any record stores in Oxford, so I waited until I could make it to Criminal Records in Atlanta. (They’re having money problems; I’d rather buy it from them than online. Sling some business their way if you can.) . . . → Read More: Recommended Reading/(Not Really An) Album Review: NY Mag on Wilco’s The Whole Love