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SEE: The fairytale stop-motion video for Renée Reed’s graceful, mysterious ‘I Saw A Ghost’

WITH her stunning, graceful, mysterious debut album out tomorrow on Keeled Scales, Louisianan folk riser musician Renée Reed has dropped a fourth and final single to usher you into the scented finery…

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Album review: Renee Reed – ‘Renee Reed’: an excellent, ethereal debut from Louisiana folk chanteuse

Renée Reed's debut is spun from very clever finery; a flow of tracks, folky and so American and yet so European, psychedelic in the way Devendra is, spectral in the way Marissa Nadler so is; Espers, but less mushroomy. Renée: she's such a talent. I'm not sure if I want to wake from this particular spell.

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Track: Renée Reed – ‘Neboj’: mysterious verdancy from rising Louisiana folk chanteuse

WE’RE just a fortnight, a little more, away from the release of Renée Reed’s self-titled debut album, one on which she reveals a mysterious, perfumed songwriting aesthetic, steeped in the…

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TRACK: Renée Reed – ‘Où est la fée’: a mystical tale from the Louisiana backwoods

HAILING from Lafayette, Louisiana, Renée Reed has followed up her excellent first single, “Fast One”, with a French language track, “Où est la fée” today. It’s the first song she’s released in French, reflecting…

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Album Review: Sun June – ‘Somewhere’

I could use a road trip right about now, and Sun June‘s new, beautiful tapestry of an album ‘Somewhere‘ would be playing on repeat throughout. It’s a prom record you…

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Album Review: Buck Meek – Two Saviors

Big Thief guitarist presents a new album of (mostly) quiet Americana lullabies

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TRACK: Renée Reed – ‘Fast One’: potent, dreamlike alt.folk from Louisiana

HAILING from Lafayette, Louisiana, Renée Reed has signed for Austin label Keeled Scales and released a single, the impressionistic, delightfully dreamy alt.folk of “Fast One”. Listen below. It’s a many-faceted thing…

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