Damien Jurado – Arkansas
[Audio clip: view full post to listen]Damien Jurado – Arkansas There were so many Seattle artists that I never came to appreciate. Damien Jurado is near the top of that list – up there with David Bazan. And even this new album isn’t very compelling. The songs sound too same-y when queued up as an [...]
The World Atlas
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] World Atlas – Girl on a Boys’ Bike World Atlas‘s self-titled EP sounds like it is a lost Belle & Sebastian EP from the Jeepster years that has finally been released in the States after years of being a highly sought rarity. In fact, it sounds so much [...]
Pearl and the Beard – God Rest
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Pearl And The Beard- Voice In My Throat [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Pearl And The Beard- Donny And Johnny Percussion and harmonies are the central are the dominate layers of the giant cake that Pearl and the Beard have named God Rest Your Weary Soul, [...]
Jane Vain – Love Is Where The Smoke Is
Jane Vain – C’mon Baby Say Bang BangJane Vain – We Must Destroy Jane Vain and the Dark Matter live within the lines. The songs (or at least the ones I’ve counted off) are built in four-measure phrases of four-four time.[1] The down beats are so heavily emphasized that they almost count twice. Jamie Fooks [...]
Kara Keith
Continuing with my Canadian series, this week I present Kara Keith‘s latest single, Kick This City. Ms. Keith previously fronted the band, Falconhawk – which I had never heard of and seems rather ordinary on first listen. To be fair, Ms. Keith’s EP as a whole sounds rather ordinary. Kick This City is simply a [...]
Basia Bulat – Oh, My Darling
Basia Bulat – Snakes and Ladders Basia Bulat – In The Night Basia Bulat – ThePilgrimingVine Basia Bulat. I know nothing about her. I had never heard of her until she popped up on the best seller list of Zunior.com. I can barely understand her lyrics. Yet those parts I do grab, snippets between her [...]
Gary’s in the ‘nix
Gary Wilson – Gary’s in the Park I have to admit, I was laughing out loud the first time I heard this one. It’s a bit out of place on a Stones Throw compilation largely featuring hip-hop and mellow, groovy downbeat tracks. Just the same, Stones Throw has a large stable of creative artists, and [...]
Salty goodness
Laura Veirs – Wandering Kind I first ran across Laura Veirs about a year and a half ago — I stumbled across the track “Lost at Seaflower Cove” while browsing an assortment of local music websites. Now, I was not impressed with the song’s title, given that it sounded so painfully indie (and I even [...]
Joan As Police Woman
Joan As Police Woman – The Ride Joan As Police Woman – Flushed Chest The Ride has been with me for almost a year now, fluctuating between enjoyable and wonderful. By August, I had so discounted Joan As Police Woman that I declined to work her stage during Bumbershoot. (I’d have to look at the [...]
Corb Lund – I Wanna Be In The Calvary
Corb Lund – I Wanna Be In The Calvary Corb Lund – I Wanna Be In The Calvary Reprise Periodically, I tour through CD Baby for a line on indie music flying under my usual radars. Until now this has been a tedious waste of time. Most of the chart topping music at CD Baby [...]
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