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Although they claim to be transparent Amos are anything but. They live between the light and the dark, sometimes in the shadows, occasionally in the dark, more often in the light. Their songs take them there. Quantum shifts between heavy and light, soft and hard, loud and quiet.
Much like the band itself, the songs from [...]
Winter People were born into tradition, but raised on distortion pedals and amplifiers. Combining the pastoral harmonies of the old world, with the bitter edges of the new one. Songs of the modern wilderness.
Aiming to blend a established auditory sepia with contemporary pop sensibilities, Winter People deliver a sound reminiscent of what seems to be [...]
When Glasgow’s Twin Atlantic released their 2009 mini-album, Vivarium, it immediately found an awestruck audience. The reviews were uniformly ecstatic. Grand, sweeping and eloquent, it was a collection of songs with a heart and soul, crafted by passion and informed by staunch lyrical and musical frankness. It set Twin Atlantic on a rollercoaster – one [...]
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Considering how quiet they’ve been over the past couple years, you’d think the Big Sleep decided to suddenly take their name seriously after the tireless tour cycle behind 2008’s Sleep Forever LP. The truth is much simpler…
“We took a little break, worked on stuff separately and just lived our lives,” explains bassist/vocalist Sonya Balchandani.
“It obviously [...]
The Apache Relay takes more long car rides than most bands. But only a portion of their car time is dedicated to their touring schedule — the rest is something like driving in the middle of the night from Nashville to Alabama and back, just to listen to a new record 12 consecutive times. Despite [...]
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This year I am Oak’s second indie/folk album ‘Oasem’ was released, following up melancholic debut album ‘On Claws’ that in 2010 received critical acclaim. The band formed around Dutch songwriter Thijs Kuijken have since played over 100 shows in tours and festivals through the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, the UK, Luxemburg and Switzerland.
The slightly darker ‘Oasem’ [...]
CBC Galaxie Rising Star Award Winner Peter Katz was supposed to make a solo acoustic record… but, when the likes of Academy Award Winner Glen Hansard (The Swell Season, Once), Canadian Folk darlings The Good Lovelies, and steel-town siren Melissa McClelland agreed to sing along… plans changed.
Nevertheless, ‘First of the Last to Know’ marks the [...]
The notion that four Chapel Hill youngsters would play under the moniker Last Year’s Men is odd to say the least. The name refers to “Last Year’s Man,” one of the seminal numbers of ’60s songwriting icon Leonard Cohen, and it’s a safe bet that gravelly-voiced poets don’t turn up on many high school iPods [...]
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Since their early days as Australian folk darlings, brother-and-sister duo Tinpan Orange have evolved into a dizzyingly original musical force. Still evident is the lush songcraft and lyrical depth for which they are renowned, but the landscape in which the songs are set has shifted.
Six-foot frontwoman Emily Lubitz twirls her flaming red hair out across [...]
It took a quarter-life crisis, a Far North Queensland retreat, and a near-band break up, but in October 2011 The Vasco Era released their third studio album – and The Vasco Era captures them in their prime.
Melbourne rock band The Vasco Era features vocalist and guitarist Sid O’Neil, his brother and bassist Ted O’Neill, and [...]
