Singer 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 playing…
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…
Read MoreBrighton, UK band The Popguns, make delightful guitar pop-rock with a nod to a retro sixties sound. So Long (seen/heard here) is from the band’s latest LP, Sugar Kisses (June 2017), and is a great example of the overall feel of the long-player, but should not be construed as some sort of a formula of what is to follow. For instance, the sugary sweet lead off track Sugar Kisses (with a near Dire Straits Sultans Of Swing guitar intro) is followed by the grungy We Don’t Go Around…
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