The title track of Haroula Rose’s new album, Catch the Light, unfolds cinematically, with swirling fingerpicked guitars, shimmering steel guitar, lush strings, and Rose’s tender and expressive vocals. The song, which opens the album, shimmers with a sparkling light refracted […]
Darlingside’s members hover loosely around a copper-colored disk poised mid-air center stage with their instruments in hand and voices ready for take-off. Once in the air, they become downright cinematic, as their work has been described. That cinematic quality was […]
At its best, music can either make us confront our true selves or provide the most incredible escape. This week, we tip our hats to the latter. Whether it’s the otherworldly songwriting of Damien Jurado, the dreamy literary quality of […]
Rivers carve their way through the natural landscape unbridled, blocked only by humans via dams or reservoirs. Rivers course mightily between their banks, slicing and sculpting their own paths, even as they spill over those same banks or flow lazily […]
Haroula Rose’s second full-length album, Here the Blue River, drinks deep from literature; its title comes from Emerson’s poem “The River,” and the original spring of inspiration, as it were, was novelist Bonnie Jo Campbell’s book Once Upon A River, for […]
