The sophomore full-length album from American singer/songwriter Caitlin Canty, titled “Golden Hour” features ten original songs and one cover of a Darlingside song. Canty’s Brooklyn-based, Nashville-bred band brings a Western flavor to her songs. The result is a soulful album of lyrical Americana, with brooding melodies and high-country motifs. Produced by Caitlin Canty and Sam Kapala, the fan-funded album was recorded in Portland, Maine during a few freezing days in January. Canty explains, “We recorded the band live in one room. Having toured together a good amount that year, I wanted to capture the magic of a live show on this album.” She continues, “the remaining songs began with just me alone in a big empty room, singing and playing my guitar in front of some beautiful microphones. A few of my favorite singers (David Senft from Darlingside and Annie Lynch from Annie and the Beekeepers) added some vital harmonies and Hans Holzen and I recorded his steel and guitar back in his Brooklyn apartment.”
Posts Tagged ‘Brooklyn’
SHARON VAN ETTEN – ” Taking Chances “
Posted: December 8, 2014 in MUSICTags: Are We there Yet, Brooklyn, Sharon Van Etten, singer songwriter
I just love this track from Sharon Van Etten American singer songwriter based in Brooklyn a track from the album “Are We There” on Jagjaguwar Records. with enough rasp and sorrow in her voice to keep from sounding too pure or confident the songs draw you in. Her songs have a heavy use of harmonies with back up singer Heather Woods Broderick, Van Etten was traning to be a Sommelier working at a new York wine store for three years before becoming a full time musician. Sharon Van Etten is a massively strong songwriter who’s only realized the power of her words and melodies over the course of recording them. So not only does she become more sure of herself with each go-round, she gets better at expressing both that assuredness and the complicated, difficult, timid emotional places that inspire her.
PORCHES – ” Ronald Paris House “
Posted: December 6, 2014 in MUSICTags: Aaron Maine, Brooklyn, New York City, Porches
Porches. has been one of the most amusing acts to come out of the Brooklyn, NY music scene over the past couple of years. The quintet, fronted by prolific multi-instrumentalist Aaron Maine, makes what is generally considered to be “sad rock,” ,
Playing around with the bewildering contradictions in its persona, the band has slotted its music into a variety of absurd, made-up genres, such as “sad spread,” “porno-gospel,” and “bootyclapping.” Porches. has finally settled on “bummer pop” Weirdly paradoxical as the description may be, “bummer pop” is the best way to characterize the breezy music from the group’s Maine’s confident, wry loner lyricism provides the through-line for the disc’s pleasing odyssey of eclectic and poppy sounds
The LONE BELLOW – ” Fake Roses “
Posted: November 27, 2014 in MUSICTags: Brooklyn, Folk Rock, The Lone Bellow, Then Came The Morning, World Cafe Live
Brooklyn folk-rockers the Lone Bellow worked with Aaron Dessner on their upcoming album “Then Came The Morning”, and some of the National’s dark elegance is present in “Fake Roses,” the second single they’ve shared from the project. The tune’s warm tones and steady pulse also hearken to Arcade Fire’s somber Funeral ballad “Une Année Sans Lumière” or Wilco’s “Via Chicago,” and there’s a weathered grace to the vocal, the sighing pedal steel and moody twilight atmospherics, the Lone Bellow have made a fantastic leap here, distancing themselves from a post Mumford hordes and proving that a class of stately indie rock is still capable of sounding fresh and vital.
CAVEMAN – ” Great Life Is Yours Tru.Ly “
Posted: November 17, 2014 in MUSICTags: Brooklyn, Caveman, Indie
Caveman is an American band based in Brooklyn, New York. The band recorded their first studio album in 2011. Although originally self-released, the album was re-released by Fat Possum Records in 2012, The band had a minor indie hit with the track “In the City”
WILDER MAKER – ” Zion “
Posted: November 14, 2014 in MUSICTags: Brooklyn, Wilder Maker, Year Of Endless Light
Wilder Maker’s 2013 record “Year Of Endless Light” was a vivid tribute to a specific slice of the American songbook: the singer/songwriter years of the 1970s and the folk-rock boom of the years just before. Gabriel Birnbaum, the creative moving force behind the project, sang in a wry voice channeled wisps of Robbie Robertson and hints of Randy Newman. The new EP is altogether stranger and moodier, the rhythms have started to blur in front of our eyes: “The beast is screaming, my heart is screaming, the sky is screaming, God is fast asleep and the bottle ain’t no good,” he sings on “Zion,” a fair asessement of the EP’s tone, while a drum and tambourine mark out a small, bewildering dance of counter rhythms. This is lovely music, finely detailed and plush, easy to warm up to, but then the delight of sharp nettles beneath keeps you picking away at it.
WILDER MAKER – ” Hope Springs “
Posted: November 14, 2014 in MUSICTags: Brooklyn, Wilder Maker, Year Of Endless Light
Just another wonderful sounding band from Brooklyn, the NY band Wilder Maker and a song titled ‘Hope Springs’. It’s a soothing sounding track and the female harmonies by vocalist Katie Von Schleicher really compliment those of Gabriel Birnbaum. I also learned that Birnbaum had worked with the likes Sharon Van Etten, as well as having shared the stage with The Arcade Fire, Deerhoof, Phosphorescent and Gogol Bordello. The band is also frequently compared to artists such as Bon Iver, Van Morrison and Bill Callahan. Wilder Maker’s most recent album is”Year Of Endless Light” .
MONOGOLD – ” This Bloom “
Posted: November 14, 2014 in MUSICTags: Bloom, Brooklyn, Dream Pop, Monogold
Brooklyn three-piece Monogold creates enveloping, psychedelic dream-pop, most recently heard on their last full-length album, 2011’s The Softest Glow, and they’ll expand on that palette with their new EP, This Bloom. The EP’s six tracks vary from gentle, ambling pieces with wordless vocals (“Skylark”) to drum-driven, effects-drenched workouts (“Holograms”). This Bloom comes out on November 11, but you can stream the whole thing below.
NOVELLER – ” Into The Dunes “
Posted: November 13, 2014 in MUSICTags: Brooklyn, Fantastic Planet, Novella
Brooklyn-based experimental musician Sarah Lipstate plays with effects and layers on this guitar-based track from her upcoming album, Fantastic Planet. The five-minute cut gives just a taste of the album’s expansive, cinematic feel, as the slow guitar lines that open the track give way to a distorted, hypnotic wave of sound at the halfway point.
Fantastic Planet will be released January 27 on Fire Records, and can be pre-ordered on iTunes. For more on Sarah Lipstate and Noveller, visit her site.
SALT CATHEDRAL – ” Holy Soul “
Posted: November 7, 2014 in MUSICTags: Brooklyn, Oom Velt, Salt Cathedral
With the release of their second EP (third if you count the Crossing Colors EP released as Il abanico) rapidly approaching, Brooklyn quartet Salt Cathedral certainly aren’t messing around. While already releasing “Tease” earlier this summer and offering up a remix by Kodak to Graph just two short weeks ago, Salt Cathedral are reveling in every facet of their new electronic focused sound while blowing up any previously conceived notions about their approach to it with each subsequent peek at the OOM VELT EP.
“Holy Soul”, the third taste from the EP that’s due out at the end of this month, is at its very basis one of those female vocals over beats songs that seems to be all the rage right now. There’s no denying that. Much of the complex rhythmic structure and interlocking instrument formations are purged in favor of something a little more pure to highlight what fans of theirs may have already known but a simple fact that it doesn’t hurt to reestablish: Juliana Ronderos’ vocals are the essence of Salt Cathedral. more compelling. Years of collaborating has only strengthened Nicolas Losada and Ronderos’ creative bonds.
Despite its sparse accompaniment, “Holy Soul” is a shining example of subtle producing. As the rest of the band stay well out of the way of Ronderos, it remains an interesting displaying of textural fortitude. The layering is slight but intriguing and absolutely crucial to the mood and even gets its moments of spotlight during vocal breaks. The big drum pad beats are there but the most monumental are the tiny fluttering click beats whose climactic rise actually form Ronderos’ initial jumping off point. With “Holy Soul”, Salt Cathedral display their diversity even going so far as to outdo the nuances of their previous ballad “Good Winds”. With such a multifaceted approach to electronica, you can only imagine what the rest of OOM VELT will sound like. Luckily that anticipation won’t have to wait too much longer.
The Fat Angel Sings 