In Rebecca Solnit’s book Wanderlust: A History of Walking, she contends that “modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought, or thoughtfulness.” Even during the last year of COVID-19 lockdowns, the quickness of modern life has persevered, and […]
Yasmin Williams’ second LP, Urban Driftwood (out Jan. 29), is a meditation on 2020 and the events of the last four years. Multi-instrumentalist Williams finished most of the songs during the COVID-19 lockdowns last year and as Black Lives Matter protesters […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: As album releases slow down in December, we like to catch our breath and write about albums that came out earlier in the year that we didn’t get a chance to review but we think are worthy of […]
As its title states, Liz Longley says goodbye to her past and to a bad relationship on her seventh studio album, Funeral for My Past. On “Fine,” she makes peace with what’s behind her — “you and me, can we […]
The heart of Kris Delmhorst’s Long Day in the Milky Way is, fittingly, in the middle of the record when, on “Skyscraper,” she softly sings: “You could be an open door. What are you waiting for?” Across her eighth album, […]
Barely 10 minutes into talking with Kathleen Edwards, I tell her that I’m at a crossroads in my writing career. “I don’t know what to do,” I admit, the COVID-exacerbated anxiety bubbling over. “Do I need to open a […]
For many, there is a disconnect between what we tell others and what we tell ourselves: It feels inexplicably foolish to repeat the gentle words of comfort that we say to friends when looking in the mirror. There’s extraordinary value […]
Parsonsfield’s fourth record, Happy Hour on the Floor, arrives after a period of change for the band. Harrison Goodale, the bassist since the band started, left and Parsonsfield entered a new phase. This upheaval is felt throughout Parsonsfield’s latest release […]
Jill Andrews is determined to stay true to herself on Thirties, her first solo album in five years. Across the album, Andrews reflects on a decade full of the highs and lows “spent single parenting, falling in and out of […]
A lot of ugliness lives in Unlovely, the third full-length record from Boston-based trio The Ballroom Thieves. The world is burning (“In the Dark”), there’s anger (“Homme Run”) and pain (“Don’t Wanna Dance”), and a cacophony of bad news envelops […]
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