New Zealand’s Marlon Williams possesses one of the greatest voices of his generation. His effortlessly distinctive tone and heartstring-plucking vibrato have garnered widespread love around the world. Williams draws on folk and country traditions – often compared to Leonard Cohen, Roy Orbison and Elvis Presley – but what makes him so special is his unique… Read more »

Snail Mail is the Baltimore based indie rocksolo project of 17 year old, Lindsey Jordan. She released a six song EP titled, “Habit,” on DC punks Priests’ Sister Polygon Records in July of 2016. The record features a full band with Shawn Durham on drums and Ryan Vieira on bass. In their “Best New Track”… Read more »

It had been a successful, if tumultuous, ride for Alynda Segarra, who’s been spreading a new kind of roots-conscious folk music across the country from her adopted hometown of New Orleans. But as far as the Bronx native had come with her band, Hurray for the Riff Raff, there was still a missing link to… Read more »

New Ways is a new album by Montreal’s Leif Vollebekk, his hotly anticipated follow-up to the Polaris Prize finalist Twin Solitude. It’s a record that lives between the kick and the snare, in that instant of feeling before the backbeat. “The way that it was is the way it should be,” Vollebekk sings on “Phaedrus”—a… Read more »

Animated Violence Mild was written throughout 2018, at Power’s studio just outside Edinburgh. These eight tracks are the diary of a year of work steeped in honing craft, self-discovery, and grief – the latter of which reared its head at the final hurdle of producing this record and created a whole separate narrative: grief, both… Read more »

Much of A Paradise was composed by Gwilym alone at home at the piano, before he took the songs to co-producer and longtime collaborator Lexxx (Wild Beasts, Fatima Al Qadiri, Darkstar). The two then spent the best part of a year together in a small room in Konk Studios, London, toiling on this extended labour… Read more »

The description “cult band” usually suggests a group that has been going for a while but is only really important to a very small number of people. This definition can be applied to The Pastels, in that they are a permanent feature of student bedrooms, scouring out the back rooms of the Western world. Such… Read more »

In this age of constant connectivity, switching off has become one of the great luxuries of modern life, and it’s one of the reasons Jaakko Eino Kalevi has called his album ‘Out of Touch’. He explores what he calls this “essential, blissed out” state on his second album for Domino – his first since 2015’s… Read more »

Iconoclast, visionary and purveyor of sheer joy – Dan Deacon’s total commitment to a genuinely boundary pushing live show has built the man a deserved reputation as one of the most life-affirming live artists performing these days. This commitment to his craft has seen Deacon experimenting with full size robots; one drummer, two drummers, no… Read more »

“Long live Cass McCombs” Drowned in Sound “One of the great songwriters of his time” NY TIMES “Arguably the greatest American singer-songwriter of this generation” VICE “One of the most compelling singer-songwriters of the past decade” UNCUT “Cass McCombs is one of our greatest modern day songwriters” GOD IS IN THE TV