Lauren 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 followed…
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 to…
Read MoreCrying 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…
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…
Read MoreMost of Vodka’s regular readers know that video reviews are often written a month or so in advance of the posting and saved in the queue with a specific publish date. That isn’t true this time around. When I heard that Flagship Romance was playing a house concert near me on a Tuesday evening, I held up writing this review that I had scheduled originally for the first week in September. Now that I’ve been to that house concert, I’m ready not only to write the review but…
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