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Album review: Lord Huron – Long Lost’: the perfect soundtrack to accompany a tranquil moment

LORD HURON has produced the perfect soundtrack to accompany a tranquil moment of wondering about “Where Did The Time Go?” After an extended period of teasing their fans, American folk…

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See: Michael Cormier gathers the undead at the karaoke bar for one ‘Last Hurrah’; ringing Americana warmth and limbs everywhere

GUITARS glimmer with a melodic, picked loveliness that can only bring a smile, kinda post-folky; the vocals are a blissed whisper, and an occasional flute circles and glides among sun-kissed…

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See: Texan guitar melodicist Cameron Knowler announces his debut solo album; come see the video for the atmospheric ‘Puerto Suelo’

TEXAN solo guitar practitioner and melodicist Cameron Knowler – whose lovely, exploratory album with Eli Winter, Anticipation, we fully embraced in early March – has announced he’s to unveil his…

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Track: Michael Cormier – ‘Empty Mugs’: A lovely lo-fi Americana drop about waking from a speedboat dream

CO-FOUNDER of the lovely Dear Life Records, home to rootsy talents such as Josh Halper and Wes Tirey, and also the musique concrète stylings of Bolomite Jr. (see our recent…

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Track: Trippers & Askers – ‘Chance’s Wake’: warming, spiritual Americana lays out the path towards an album drawing on the near-dystopian classic, ‘The Parable Of The Sower’

OCTAVIA E. BUTLER was a Californian African-American science fiction author whose 1993 novel, Parable Of The Sower, has rippled out with staying power across culture, with its tale of the…

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Track: Alexa Rose – ‘Clearwater Park’: those endless childhood summers evoked in rootsy folk magic

WITH a third album of heartfelt, bell-clear folk songcraft due out in the autumn on Fat Possum’s Big Legal Mess imprint, Black Mountain, North Carolina-based Alexa Rose has released a…

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Track: The Mountain Goats drop ‘The Slow Parts On Death Metal Albums’ and announce a tour Stateside

IS IT time that John Darnielle’s purveyors of the great Americana dream, The Mountain Goats, received an award for industry? In the accursed year of our Lord, 2020, when the…

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Track: Louien – ‘Fire’: a track of ethereal grace teases for next month’s EP

WITH her No Tomorrow EP due out a month from now, Norwegian indie-folkie Louien has one final come-hither single to share with us, after the bold country rock of “Better…

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See: Sara Bug – ‘Back In Nashville’: sweetly yearning, old-skool country from a want-away heart

COMING atcha outta Richmond, Virginia, EggHunt Records is sure to be blowin’ up big time in an old skool, proper country music way when latest signing Sara Bug’s album drops…

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News: The Mountain Goats announce an album for late June, laid down in Muscle Shoals; hear the warm country rock of ‘Mobile’

THEY’RE nothing if not prolific and industrious, John Darnielle’s much-loved exponents of Americana, The Mountain Goats. It was only a year or so ago that John was in conversation with NPR about…

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