The Duhks – Migrations
The Duhks – Heaven’s My Home The Duhks – Mountains O’ Things Listed as one of Grant Alden’s favorite 2006 albums in the year-end No Depression, this band has found a niche. Not quite standard rotation, but beautiful when I bring myself to listen. Smooth rather than twangy; measured rather than fast. While I’m [...]
Xavier Rudd – Food In The Belly
Xavier Rudd – The Letter Xavier Rudd – Messages The circle of life has claimed The Sounds and they have joined the compost heap of records waiting to regain their day. I weep not, gentle reader, and neither should you because a new champion has claimed my fancy: Xavier Rudd. While this is Mr. Rudd’s [...]
The Apples In Stereo – New Magnetic Wonder
Apples In Stereo – Can You Feel It Apples In Stereo – Energy I would never have imagined that the Apples In Stereo would return from their five year hiatus with a polished record. Their first album, Fun Trick Noisemaker, showed great promise but the subsequent albums always felt half-cocked. The band’s leading writer, Robert [...]
Christine Fellows – Migrations
Christine Fellows – Migrations I’m not going to claim Ms. Fellows as a brilliant, overlooked artist deserving all the praise the blogosphere can bestow upon the unsuspecting, but the track is enjoyable and a couple of the lines are nice. (I see no reason to struggle to connect with her full album when I still [...]