From time to time, Vodka takes a look back at an artist that graced our reviews some time ago to see how the group or artists is faring today. Sometimes we are disappointed to find they no longer exist, and sometimes, like this time, we find that the group/artist is still out there making great music. Enter Mipso, which first appeared on Vodka back in August of 2013 with Carolina Calling. Mipso is a folk-bluegrass group from Chapel Hills, North Carolina. They have been making music for a number…
Read MoreIf Lights Out doesn’t blow you away musically, lyrically it will have you on the edge of tears. Lindsay White is a folk musician whose vocal and instrumental beauty flows freely, but the stories-Oh the stories! In Lights Out, the title track to her 2017 long-player, Lindsay sings of a person who fought her way through life and fought her way out. It’s a story of life and loss and everything in the middle. It’s about putting up walls that you can’t see beyond. It’s about walls as protection…
Read MoreItalian pop songstress Luana Maso uses a pop medium to tell folk stories. Take Legends (seen/heard here), for instance, from Luana’s debut long-player, Down The Rabbit Hole (April 2017). Legends tell the all too familiar story of growing up and how while we are young, we are in awe and wonder at the things around us. Unencumbered by adult reality borders, children see the vast world as a place where there are limitless possibilities. As adults, with work and life commitments, we tend to lose that sense of…
Read MoreWith a captivating beautiful voice, Hannah Nicholson will have your spine tingling with Oliver (seen/heard here) from her very first EP, Breath (September 2017). Her vocals are bell-like, pristine, and the instrumentation throughout, while great in its own right, stays out of the way of Nicholson’s lyric delivery. Her bio on her own website is a bit incomplete, but suffice it to say that Hannah has provided her wonderful pipes to others and that this is her first attempt to make them solely her own. That this is as it…
Read MorePhil Lomac’s video for Northern Lights, the first track from his latest long-player Northern Cities Southern Stars (March 2017), is a surreal look at light. Musically, Northern Lights is modern rock at its finest. There is textural complexity here, with lighter and heavier components from the driving rhythm provided by both guitars and drums, to the wonderful tuneful and beautiful lyric delivery. Throughout Northern Cities Southern Stars there is a juxtaposition of harder and edgier guitars that quickly shifts to quieter moments of poignancy with the edges left in…
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