Crying Day Care Choir are three beautiful, blended voices, assorted instruments, and an attitude about folk music that contains some of pop music’s better hooks. It’s a win-win combination, as detailed here in the single Sad Season (February 2017), which is anything but sad. The trio made up of husband and wife, Jack and Sara Elz with Bill Nystedt has one long-player and a few singles and EP’s dating back to 2012. You can find a little bit of information on the band on their facebook page or you…
Read MoreSinger and songwriter, Lesley Kernochan, has explored several different song styles during her career that spans over a decade. Take her debut full-length, Undulating from 2006 for instance. That LP explored a capella in a one-woman mix of layers of Lesley. It was innovative back then, and I would imagine that just sticking to that style would have made Lesley unique and successful. That is something that she obviously was not content with as she has done progressive folk music, children’s music, and various shades of folk-pop since arriving…
Read MoreJade Jackson’s debut long-player, Gilded (May 2017), hosts this somewhat autobiographical track, Finish Line, about running past the finish line in life and reaching for your goals hard. As a lyricist, Ms. Jackson writes from the heart, opening it gently so that you can feel her feelings. As a singer-songwriter, she can pen a voice for those lyrics and weave a tune that will expand your imagination along with her own. Mildly country, these tracks hint more at folk storytelling than they do of anything else. Ms. Jackson is…
Read MoreThe first album of material from the band Ride in 20 years, is likely one of the band’s very best. Charm Assault (seen/heard here) is just one example of the psychedelic flavored pop-rock (sometimes referred to as shoegaze) that is present on Weather Diaries (June 2017). Founding members Andy Bell and Mark Gardener have seen Ride through a number of changes, musically, since the band’s inception back in 1988, including the band’s demise, for a time, in 1996. The return of Ride with such an earth-shatteringly wonderful collection of tunes…
Read MoreThe problem with lyric videos is that sometimes they highlight exactly the wrong thing. Instead of getting you involved in the music, you become a proofreader and that can lead to frustration for those of us who try to use language correctly. None of us, I would surmise, are perfect at this. I know I’m not, but it is still annoying to see a glaring error. Dent May’s lyric video for Picture On A Screen from the forthcoming full-length, Across the Multiverse (due to be released…
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