Within seconds of their newest LP’s beginning, Them Coulee Boys deliver the album’s titular phrase, “no fun in the chrysalis,” shortly after, they follow with the declaration: “Change is a funny thing / Pain can make you sing.” It’s […]
Within seconds of their newest LP’s beginning, Them Coulee Boys deliver the album’s titular phrase, “no fun in the chrysalis,” shortly after, they follow with the declaration: “Change is a funny thing / Pain can make you sing.” It’s […]
A “storm’s coming tonight,” warns Sean Thompson on the second track of his second Weird Ears LP. Engaging in a timeless country motif, he uses the weather phenomenon as a stand-in for personal dread, anxiety and grief: “The anticipation is […]
At just 17, Ty Myers has earned nearly three million monthly Spotify listeners, signed with Columbia records, and sold out a headlining tour. Press play on his debut LP, The Select, and it quickly becomes clear why he has connected […]
Nick Gusman & The Coyotes don’t do half measures, as evidenced by their barnstorming third album, Lifting Heavy Things, which has all the markings of a soon-to-be critical and commercial breakthrough. By the time the LP’s second track, “Sound of […]
Double albums traditionally signal a newly ambitious and confident band, be it historical landmarks like The Beatles’ White Album and The Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main Street or a more modern example like Big Thief’s Dragon New Warm Mountain I […]
All Now, the fifth album from UK sister act The Staves, is their first as a duo, following the departure of Emily Staveley-Taylor. However, the reconfigured group remains at the height of their confidence on All Now, which begins with […]
Laura Veirs’ newest album, Phone Orphans, was written between 2016 and 2022, a time period of immense change that upended much of the world as we knew it: two hugely consequential presidential elections, a pandemic, and a war in Europe. […]
Minneapolis-based Barbaro mines life’s most intimate and seemingly mundane moments in an attempt to extrapolate larger lessons about life itself and the nature of our fragile existence. Songs like “The Lil Sweaters” and “Apples to Apples,” from their newest album, […]
Jolie Holland has a singular and fascinating autobiography, having been raised in a cult and finding herself homeless for five years after escaping. In the 20 years since her 2003 debut, Catalpa, she has forged a sound as singular and […]
For Taylor Ashton, who spent much of his teens and early 20s touring Canada before moving to Brooklyn and busking there in 2015, home is on the road. His newest offering, Stranger to the Feeling, was recorded over the course […]