You may remember Portland, Oregon based Otis Heat from the video / review posted for Gold Mine around two years ago. Well, the second long-player, ING, from the group is finally out (by the time you read this, September 2014) and with it comes Brow (see this video), Gold Mine and twelve additional tracks. Since I’m writing this review prior to the release, it is going to have to exclude most of those tracks, as I have not heard them yet, but Otis Heat…
Read MoreAs promised during the review of Bridie Jackson and The Arbour’s We Talked Again on August 27, 2014, from the quartet’s second long-player New Skin (May 2014), here is another dark tale from that long-player. Scarecrow tells the story of a bride who dies on the night before her wedding day. It is a beautiful, haunting song and, as was the case with We Talked Again, it is full of the quartet’s signature harmonies. Scarecrow is one of the few songs not…
Read MoreThree young women who create beautiful, complex songs infused generously with three part harmonies is nothing to be sneezed at. Combine this with their skills as session vocalists and instrumentalists for the last ten years and it would be hard to even believe that the average age of this trio is just 22. That’s an incredible feat! Here, Saoirse Duane, Caoimhe Barry and Karen Cowley, performing together as a group called Wyvern Lingo, show off the lovely a Capella number, Used, from their new five-song…
Read MoreThe Murder and four other tracks are available from Bandcamp as the new long-player, Just Another Day from Dublin, Ireland’s Tony Fitz comes together. It should come as no surprise after listening to these first tracks, that this is an old west story, and if the pictures aren’t conjured up by the words and music alone, then once the CD releases, it comes with a comic book. (pictorial sample available on the bandcamp.com site.) There is plenty to find out about Tony Fitz,…
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