How would you feel if you were kept from the person that you loved for 2 years? Hopeless? Helpless? Lost? As it turns out, it’s all of those things and more. Ebony Buckle’s latest single Ghost (seen/heard here) is an autobiographical tale of just such a journey. Fighting to renew her visa after her marriage to husband Nick Burns, whom she co-wrote Ghost with over Skype, the two were kept apart and forced into a kind of limbo where their lives could not move forward, plans could not be made,…
Read MoreTwo months ago, Vodka reviewed the awesome Americana-tinged folk-pop of Arielle Silver’s What Really Matters. The video for Headlights (seen/heard here), Arielle’s latest single from her forthcoming long-player, A Thousand Tiny Torches, was just released to the public today, and it is another example of a great song and sentiment from this artist. This is very much like folk-pop circa the 1970′s and has the feel-good elements that were so prevalent back then. Lyrically, Silver hits again, painting the feeling of what it’s like to look back on your life and wishing…
Read MoreBrother and sister duo me&you (Karlee and Connor Hormell), forge a plaintive ballad with S.O.L. that blends dual leads with beautiful two-part harmonies and a message that we have all shared at one point or another: down on our luck, shit out of luck. Yep, we’ve all been there. S.O.L. is lyrically minimal but gets the message across. Instrumentally, the single is alternately sparse and grand where it needs to be. me&you boil their music in a pot of Americana that is unmistakable, but accessible across pop and folk…
Read MoreRegular Vodka readers will remember Dropkick from previous reviews here. One of the founding members of Dropkick, Andrew Taylor, recently released his second solo long-player, containing music created over the last 10 years and finally recorded and released. Somewhere To Be (September 2019), the title track of which is posted here, contains introspective Americana-tinged pop musings, for the most part, beautifully rendered, with folk stories included for good measure. The closest thing to rocking outcomes in the bridge for Growing Older Than You, a raucous fuzzed-out guitar fill…
Read MoreMolly Linen has just released Outside (October 2019), a five-track debut EP of thoughtful, breathy, folk-pop, and it is immediately a winner. The video for Away (seen/heard here) is definitely a low-budget affair, but the music wins out right away, and that’s what we are here for, right? The EP opener, When They Didn’t Care, sets the stage for everything that comes after. Its delicious minor key beginnings resolve into a beautiful refrain. This may be only five tracks long, but it is full of Molly Linen’s potential. There’s not…
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