Often times, collaborations turn out to be much hype and excitement but very little execution. But sometimes, as if by magic, different artists come together after making wildly different music and produce something unique and incredible. Fiction Family is the moniker adopted by …
Category: Folk
Frontier Ruckus – Eternity of Dimming
Quite Scientific Records, 2013. Frontier Ruckus: http://www.frontierruckus.com/ Frontier Ruckus’ new album, Eternity of Dimming, follows their earlier work including I Am The Water You Are Pumping EP, The Orion Songbook, Way Upstate and the Crippled Summer, pt. 1, and Deadmalls & Nightfalls. The band …
Those Willows – “Blue Spotted Tail”
I love covers. Hardly matters who does the cover, as long as it’s good, or what the cover is. But when a new up and coming band that I really like (Those Willows, new album review next week) covers another band that practically …
The Corndodgers – Stories for a Book
Careless Receords, 2012. The Corndodgers: http://www.corndodgers.co.uk/band.php The Corndodgers, hailing from Nottingham, England, have their third album out, entitled Stories for a Book. Beginning in 2007, the group went through a series of instrumental arrangements before finalizing in their current form in 2009. The …
Dawes Album Preview
This is kind of cheating, but it’s enough Dawes to whet my appetite. It’s short, but it hints at an album that will sound significantly different from Nothing Is Wrong, our 2011 Album of the Year. Enjoy this small sampling of what’s to come …
Fiction Family – “Up Against The Wall”
Fiction Family just released a new album, Reunion, and you can look for a review coming up soon. Here’s one of the songs, one of the best songs, from the new album, “Up Against The Wall”.
Passenger – All The Little Lights
In today’s music industry, with the advent of YouTube, Kickstarter, Bandcamp, and others, it’s becoming a crowded place. It becomes more and more difficult to distinguish yourself from other artists. If you’re an indie rock band, you can add a violin, some brass, …
The Postmen – Desert of Joy
Those of you who follow our YouTube Page knows that I’ve been liking a lot of multitrack music lately. I kept running into a lot of pop multitrack but not much folk, so I dug a little deeper to find this absolute GEM …
Robinson – “Sidewalk Reunion”
Robinson recently released an EP, Fits & Starts, that we talked about before Christmas and the first track on the 3 song EP is this one, called “Sidewalk Reunion”. It’s a really cool, mostly acoustic track with some great vocals and interesting percussion. The …
Mili – “The Red String You Can Tether”
Mili is the pseudonym of Toronto, Ontario based singer songwriter Milindra Kulugammana. The sweet voiced, capo’ed guitar stylings of this brilliant Canadian musician are crystal clear on this track, one of many off of his Convalescence. When mixed with the beautifully written lyrics about being …
