singer-songwriter
TRACK: Emmy the Great’s ‘Dandelions/Liminal’ is intelligent and breezy
BELLA UNION’S Emmy the Great has had a major shift in consciousness and the place she calls home since her last album, Second Love, back in 2016. Born in Hong Kong, Emma Lee-Moss (for it is she) moved to London with her parents at the end of the city’s loaned colonial status; more recently she …
SEE: Martha – ‘Her Name’s December’: a singer to watch
UP AND coming British singer-songwriter Martha cut her musical teeth singing out from the depth of her heart in church, aged just 9. She began writing her own material at just 13 and, drawing on a love of acts such as Florence and the Machine and Aurora, brings the big-horizon emotion to her debut EP, …
SEE: Fenne Lily -‘To Be A Woman Pt. 2’: whispered caution, guitars fizzing
BRISTOL is a city that has really pulled its weight in modern musical culture; there’s no need to list all those paradigm-shifters that have come from the Avon Valley. One of the rising stars of the Bristol scene, 2020 vintage, is the Dorset-born singer-songwriter Fenne Lily, who has shared the video for “To Be A …
SEE: Otta’s ‘Sick Inside’ has a gorgeous, genre-busting fragility
SOUTH London-based, British-Finnish singer Otta is plotting an intriguing and sonically dazed course out on the creative fringes of singer-songwriter, lofi and soul. Her second EP, entitled Songbook, follows a critically tipped debut at the end of last year; and on the strength of lead track “Sick Inside” promises to be innovative, inventive, playful and …
Track: Elvis Costello – No Flag
‘No Flag’ is Elvis Costello’s new single. Traveling alone to the Finnish capital on February 16th, Elvis Costello worked for three days at Suomenlinnan Studio, a recording facility a twenty-minute ferry ride from downtown Helsinki. Asked about the choice of recording location, Elvis explained, “I wanted to go somewhere nobody knew me. So, this is ‘The …
Track: Morgan Harper-Jones – Typical
Manchester, 23 year-old singer/songwriter Morgan Harper-Jones has today revealed her latest track “Typical” an intricate and beautiful piece. Explaining the feelings behind “Typical”, Harper-Jones said, “It’s hard to love someone who doesn’t want to be loved… So honestly don’t waste your time or energy.” She continues, “I wrote ‘Typical’ as an ‘eye roll and exit’ song, loosely inspired by activist Gina …
Track: Brendan Benson – Good to be alive
After a long 7 years its comes to somewhat joy to announce Brendan Benson’s new album DEAR LIFE arrives via Third Man Records on 24th April. It feels such the right time for singer, songwriter and producer to get back to making music. “There’s something about this record,” Benson says. “A friend of mine called it …
Album Review : Bill Callahan’s ‘Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest’
Bill Callahan is one of America’s best modern songwriters. Like contemporaries Will Oldham, Damien Jurado, Phil Elverum, and the late Vic Chesnutt, Callahan paints pictures of worlds of long ago in his songs. Touching on emotions and real life so plainly and without much need for interpretation, his dark voice and acoustic-driven songs feel like …
Album Review : Tim Heidecker – What The Brokenhearted Do…
It took me a long time to find an “in” with Tim Heidecker. In-particular, the comedy he created with Eric Warheim. Watching Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job on Adult Swim was both absolute hilarity and mild-to-extreme unease. Their comedy was this weird mix of 80s cable access video effects and mild hallucinatory fever …
New Music : Declan O’Donovan’s “Hank”
In the spirit of Harry Nilsson, Three Dog Night, and Randy Newman comes the infectious, funky, and piano-led track “Hank” from singer/songwriter Declan O’Donovan. Listen to the track below, and be prepared for moving and grooving. About the track: Loosely based on an urban legend about a promiscuous Hank Williams and woven into a …