George Fetner’s Some Things We’ll Change cerebral compositions bridge a perfect gap between modern pop song and melodic complexity. “It Goes On” is an austere meditation on loss and gesture towards acceptance. Fetner’s music is music of transition and is created for […]
Todd Mathis’ song “Old Man” is led by the growl of an electric guitar and the driving counterpoint of a pentatonic piano line. Mathis’ new record, Love in the City is about the complexity of the human experience. Even though the sounds […]
Kristen Englenz music is like stream of consciousness Beat poetry imbued with good-down-home Southern sensibility. Kristen’s debut record Extent of Play is a lightly adorned record that gets straight to the point: a singer, an earnest acoustic guitar, and the keening of […]
Blake Rainey’s “Helicopter Rose” is a stop-and-go closer from his album released late last year on Southern Lovers Recording Co. “Helicopter Rose” punctuates an album of heart pounding and thoughtful Americana. In a sparse musical landscape Rainey drops axioms about […]
Mountain Party’s “Your Kind” blends their DIY mystique with a fine dusting of chamber pop. The song’s chilly kiss off of “don’t you tell me now” is completmented by a melodic calliope and a brooding violin. Lead singer Justin Green […]
Sarah and The Safe Word songs are haunted by edge-of-your-seat pop hooks and gothic textures. They’re a collective of pop smiths that craft tunes that will remind you as much as the raw anthems of Taking Back Sunday as they […]
Ben Trickey’s “Alabama” opens with an elegiac piano & violin figure. Trickey’s voice fires like the carburetor in your dad’s old pick up truck. It’s a song about the ambivalence of being alive, but choosing happiness. Tricky is somewhere between […]
Michael Lesousky’s (Grassland String Band) debut solo record, Deep Shade of Blue, is a collection of bittersweet narratives about small town isolation. “Hope & Desolation,” is a mid-tempo meditation that sounds like John Prine singing with Sufjan Stevens’ earnestness, In the […]
Hayes Peebles has an adventurous palette that is combines the energy of The Tallest Man on Earth with Fleet Foxes melodic sensibilities. “Airways” is an ambiguous narrative that is bridged by joyful melodic passages. With just two guitars, a […]
Faline is a project from Charleston songwriter Jenna Ave-Lallemant. Ave-Lallemant creates tiny operas that posses spellbinding shifts in narrative and tone. “Illinois” pairs industrial powerchords, whimsical Rhodes piano lines, and lyrics injected with magical realism. Check out “Illinois” from her record FALINE […]
