With a captivating beautiful voice, Hannah Nicholson will have your spine tingling with Oliver (seen/heard here) from her very first EP, Breath (September 2017). Her vocals are bell-like, pristine, and the instrumentation throughout, while great in its own right, stays out of the way of Nicholson’s lyric delivery. Her bio on her own website is a bit incomplete, but suffice it to say that Hannah has provided her wonderful pipes to others and that this is her first attempt to make them solely her own. That this is as it should…
Read MorePhil Lomac’s video for Northern Lights, the first track from his latest long-player Northern Cities Southern Stars (March 2017), is a surreal look at light. Musically, Northern Lights is modern rock at its finest. There is textural complexity here, with lighter and heavier components from the driving rhythm provided by both guitars and drums, to the wonderful tuneful and beautiful lyric delivery. Throughout Northern Cities Southern Stars there is a juxtaposition of harder and edgier guitars that quickly shifts to quieter moments of poignancy with the edges left in the…
Read MoreLauren Mann’s latest long-player, Dearestly, released over a year ago now (July 2016), has been the source for some pretty great folk-pop music. The bouncy fun of New Beginning (seen/heard here) belies the understated emotional feelings of loss and the need for a personal reboot. Mann’s musical career started in 2011 and has always depended on her social network of fans to get the word out about her music. Her first collection of songs was 2011′s, Stories From Home, which were repackaging’s of her own home recordings. It was…
Read MoreVodka is incredibly excited about this Swedish folk trio, Crying Day Care Choir, and you should be too. A second single released in August seems to indicate a possible long-player coming. Let’s hope that is the case! The video for Archipelago (seen/heard here) was released on the web by Warner Music Sweden on August 28, 2017. There still isn’t tons of information on this trio, even though they’ve been recording together for at least 5 years. If this is your first time stumbling into the group, look back…
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