Getting ahold of the new Ray LaMontagne album, Monovision, is the aural equivalent of grabbing a handful of rich Southern soil. Monovision’s songs are earthen in instrumentation and tone, rooted in Lamontagne’s inimitable vocal and Carolinian geographical references. The melodies […]
For the last 25 years, we’ve come to find a blend of comfort and confusion in the beautiful music of Damien Jurado. Whether the work trends toward plaintive (as in 2019’s In The Shape of the Storm) or psychedelic (his […]
Sarah Siskind’s new album, Modern Appalachia, is more than a deeply affecting introspective turn. It documents the actual processing of making that turn — field notes from a journey home in a figurative and literal sense. For the North Carolina […]
Mark Erelli’s newest release, Blindsided, says just as much about who he is as it does about where he’s been. The secrets are embedded in the restraint of the 11-song set, a collection efficient yet varied, emotional yet exact. It’s […]
These songs will be filed under Aoife O’Donovan’s name, but it’s the artistic alloy that comprises the EP Bull Frogs Croon (and Other Songs) that makes it such a captivating song cycle. That’s not to say O’Donovan doesn’t deserve the […]
James Steinle’s what-you-see-is-what-you-get brand of country music surely makes his home of South Texas proud, with its simple, straightforward approach to spinning tales of dusty joys and weathered sorrows. On his second album, What I Came Here For, a series […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: In December, we like to take a look back at albums we didn’t get around to reviewing earlier in the year. Caretakers was released in August. When Pete Yorn first broke out with 2001’s brilliant musicforthemorningafter, the […]
There’s a quiet confidence at the heart of Up on High, the latest release from Andy Cabic and company. The central figure in Vetiver, Cabic has long trod California’s acoustic paths with many of the same surrounding friends joining along […]
Their platform has never been larger; their music has never felt closer. The last album from The Avett Brothers, 2016’s True Sadness, topped the charts and garnered Grammy noms. The following year brought the critically acclaimed documentary May It Last, […]
Over a decade since David Wax Museum first released their debut, 2008’s I Turned Off Thinking About, the band that built their niche in “Mexi-folk” has evolved in every way. The band’s core members — David Wax and Suz Slezak […]
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