David Ian Roberts Sending Out Fires (seen/heard here) is from the more interesting side of folk singer-songwriter compositions and appears on the artist’s March 2019 long-player, Traveling Bright. The long-player has apparently been in the works for a while, with production and engineering taking place in 2017. Like a well-aged whiskey, there’s a benefit to the wait, as experienced through the 12 carefully created tracks that appear on Traveling Bright. At times, there is a feel of late sixties-style folk-rock goodness, (lead-off track A Million Winds) troubadour style…
Read MoreAyla Nereo is no newcomer to the world of music, artistry, and self-healing. She’s been at it since at least 2006 when she released her self-recorded first long-player, Play Me A Time. She has recorded as a single artist, and in various collaborations, which means that there is ultimately a wealth of music available that she has either influenced or totally created. Ayla is a free spirit, less defined by a single genre’ of music than influenced by all of it. She adapts lyrical brilliance with orchestral sweeps,…
Read MoreIf ever there was a contextual relationship between “smart” and “pop”, Sweden’s Ivy Flindt has it, and it is exceptional! Vocally light and lilting, the phrasing used by lead vocal Cate Martin is by no means cookie-cutter pop. Here on Young And Pretty from the duo’s long-player, In Every Move (August 2018), you get a taste of all that. A collaboration of two creators, Ivy Flindt combines the aforementioned Cate Martin and Micha Holland, painting pictures with the music they create, which as it turns out is in keeping with…
Read MoreThis isn’t the first appearance of Sara Niemietz on Vodka, but full-disclaimer, Don’t Walk Me Home (seen/heard here) is from Travel Light, Sara’s 2017 long-player and we are using it to announce the release of Get Right, Sara’s latest long-player (March 2019). At the time this review was written, it had not been released yet (it will be available by the time you read this for sure) and there was no video from the new long-player available. That said, all of Sara’s music is deserving of…
Read MoreEvan Thomas Way’s voice is like an ocean breeze: fresh, clean, soothing. The music he creates, either with the Phasers or with The Parson Red Heads, is full of hope and light. His latest long-player, Long Distance (March 2019), from which Don’t Surprise Me (seen/heard here) comes, promises to be another collection of life poems and musical gems. At the time of this writing, Don’t Surprise Me was the only track available for preview on Evan’s bandcamp.com site, but it is absolutely…
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