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JULIE BYRNE – ” Not Even Happiness “

Posted: January 10, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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New York based singer-songwriter Julie Byrne has announced her sophomore album, “Not Even Happiness”, is set to be released on January 27th via UK-based label Basin Rock Records.

“The title of the album comes from a letter I wrote to a friend after a trip to Riis Park’s ‘The People’s Beach’,” Byrne says in a press release. “It was the first warm afternoon of the year. I walked alongside the Atlantic as the Earth came alive for the sun. There was a palpable sense of emergence to everything. I felt it in myself too, and remember thinking I would trade that feeling for nothing… not even happiness.”

Today, Julie Byrne has shared the song I Live Now As A Singer, the elegant closing track from her upcoming album, “Not Even Happiness”. It is Julie Byrne’s first song ever to be recorded without a guitar.

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Her husky voice ebbs and swoops in one of those wordless melodies that seems like the singer is channeling some ancient wavelength, Byrne’s voice is so delicate it sounds like she’s harmonizing with a breeze, her songs are so transfixing — the sun is setting, and the magic-hour light is warm and enveloping  that those of us who’ve gathered to watch her are sitting slack-jawed.”

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Not Even Happiness is out January 27th on Basin Rock Records.

JULIEN BAKER – ” Brittle Boned “

Posted: January 10, 2017 in MUSIC
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Julien Baker’s music is poetic and intensely personal, written from her perspective as a young, gay, Christian from Memphis, Tennessee. The surprising thing is how well her music resonates with a crowd of all ages, genders, religious beliefs, and sexual orientations,

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From the album “Sprained Ankle” out via 6131 Records. Perhaps part of the appeal of Sprained Ankle is the liberating feeling that comes from hearing someone tackling these subjects with such eloquence,
Recorded at Spacebomb Studios in Richmond, VA

GRETA RAY – ” Unwind / Drive “

Posted: January 8, 2017 in MUSIC
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Hear Gretta Ray's new song 'Unwind'

Greta Ray released her debut EP, “Elsewhere”, in February, such was the level of interest it had the potential to make things a whole lot more complicated. An executive decision was taken: “My manager and my mum took over all those e-mails and delayed all of our responses until my final exam [was] done,” says the 18-year-old. The plan was working until Ray received a call in October asking her to fly to Sydney as she’d won the Vanda & Young Songwriting Competition, beating a field of nearly 2,500 applicants to take the $50,000 first prize for her song “Drive”. (Former winners include the Preatures’ Isabella Manfredi, Megan Washington and Kimbra.) It was an incredible climax to a terrific year for this young Australian singer songwriter. –

It’s a shimmering, svelte, immersive four minutes of music with an expansive colour palette: vibrant choruses, rich, relatable lyrics, moreish melodic twists and turns. To borrow a phrase from a very clever new songwriter we are extremely excited about, you are certainly going to “feel it all.” .

Says Greta of the song:

I wrote the lyrics with the intention of portraying the thought process when going through a break up. More specifically, the moment when you come to understand the extent of what you’ve lost, when you start to feel the weight of what the relationship became. I think the lyric that best conveys that is: “I am sure that there is more to this than I care to admit”. Hopefully this rings true with you when you listen. The recording process at triple J was such an incredible opportunity; I got to work with some very special musicians and am so grateful for all of their time. We completed the production for this new song in the space of a day and half, which was a huge achievement for the whole team, considering that my usual producers and I spent a good few weeks on ‘Drive’. Despite it being a speedy process, it was incredibly fun and very satisfying.

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Ray’s love of music hit early, and by five she’d joined the Young Voices of Melbourne choir, with whom she performed for 12 years. By seven she’d taken up piano and written her first song, and by nine had fallen in love with Taylor Swift and the Dixie Chicks, supplementing the musical diet of James Taylor and Joni Mitchell on which she’d been raised. The songs for Elsewhere were written between the ages of 15 and 16 – which, given her lyrical dexterity and command of storytelling, not to mention the maturity of her folk-inspired pop creations.

JULIEN BAKER – ” Paste Session “

Posted: January 6, 2017 in MUSIC
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Middle Tennessee State University student/songwriter Julien Baker came to the Paste Studio last january to play us some music off of her debut solo album, “Sprained Ankle” (which was featured in our best albums of 2015).

Baker, who released the album last year, has been through more in her life than the average 20-something, and her experiential maturity is evident in her songwriting. Her lyrics are intimate, sometimes cautionary, and completely from the heart. She’s doesn’t just sing and play guitar. It’s much, much more than that. Stay tuned: this young lady has a big future ahead of her. I;m hoping she tours the UK this forthcoming year , she would be an excellent addition to the End Of the Road Festival.

Watch Julien Baker’s performance of “Everybody Does” above, as well as “Sprained Ankle” and “Something” below from her Paste Session in the beginning part of the year.

Sprained Ankle – 21/1/2016 – Paste Studios, New York, NY

Something – 21/1/2016 – Paste Studios, New York, NY

Everybody Does – 21/1/2016 – Paste Studios, New York,

NADIA REID – ” Call The Days “

Posted: January 6, 2017 in MUSIC
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One last push in Australia. It’s been bloody great. Thank you, Sydney for being so kind to an over-tired, over-caffeinated New Zealander. Brisbane'ers can find tickets for tonight on the Junk Bar website. Or on the door at The Junk Bar, $15. Please...

New Zealand singer/songwriter Nadia Reid’s debut album dissects a relationship whose end illuminates new layers of failure and hidden motives with each re-examination. Reid’s outlook on love may be hopeless, but her blunt words are cocooned by the warmth and unusual hookiness of the varied arrangements.

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Nadia Reid is a folk artist based in Port Chalmers, New Zealand. The 24-year-old singer-songwriter has spent the better part of the last decade writing the songs for her debut album “Listen to Formation, Look for the Signs”  a ten-track collection of folk, blues and alt-country.

Throughout the album, Reid presents a maturity that reflects on love and life’s blazes with a measure of intricacy and courage within melancholy.

Recorded in 2014 by Ben Edwards (of Lyttelton Records) with Reid’s band consisting of bassist Richie Pickard, guitarist Sam Taylor and percussionist Joe McCallum, the album was originally given limited release to New Zealand and Australia in early 2015. After catching international attention, Listen to Formation, Look for the Signs now out via Spunk Records and Scissor Tail (U.S.). Reid is currently in Melbourne, opening a series of shows for fellow New Zealanders Tiny Ruins.

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Listen to Formation, Look for the Signs
Scissor Tail / Spunk

 

PHOEBE BRIDGERS – ” Prayer In Open D “

Posted: January 1, 2017 in MUSIC
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The 21-year-old singer-songwriter is comfortable in the rock, pop and Americana worlds — she even guested on this year’s Joyce Manor album. Recently, she has opened for Conor Oberst, Blake Babies and Julien Baker, and it’s been a year and a half since her killer single, “Killer.”

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BILLIE ELISH – ” Six Feet Under “

Posted: December 31, 2016 in MUSIC
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“If you haven’t heard of Billie Eilish yet, don’t worry, I’m sure that’s about to change. At only 14 years old, the pop chanteuse has the ethereal vocals of Lana Del Rey and the potential to be the next Lorde. We were taken by Eilish’s track “Ocean Eyes” earlier this year, as it makes you feel like you’re floating underwater”.

based in Los Angeles Billie Eilish set the internet ablaze last year with the track “Ocean Eyes”, a simple, stunning ballad that turned heads in the music industry on the back of our initial post. Her first release of 2016,  “Six Feet Under”, and, as a critical follow-up to that acclaimed first track, we think she’s hit it out of the park.

“Six Feet Under” picks up where “Ocean Eyes” left off, combining pure, downcast vocals with minimal production to create an intimate, immersive feel. It’s apparent that, thus far, Billie seems to favor deeper, darker ballads that strike a balance between melancholy and memorability, and, accordingly, she’s making them extremely well. If Billie can continue pumping out tracks of this emotional density and overall quality, there’s no doubt at all that she’ll live up to—and absolutely outlast—the hype she’s gotten so far. “Six Feet Under” showcases beyond a doubt that she’s the real deal.

here is here earlier track “Ocean Eyes”

ROBERT CHANEY – ” Patch It Up “

Posted: December 28, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Robert Chaney is an American performing artist, heir to the songwriting traditional style of Townes Van Zandt, Hank Williams, and Judee Sill. His Highly anticipated ten track debut album Cracked Picture Frames . Written in the bleached out swamps of South Florida and recorded in London, ‘Cracked Picture Frames’ is a hard-core and stripped-down survey of ballads, blood, and bone song after song stuns the listener. The album is “Sharp, intelligent, thoughtful and moving.”

Produced and recorded by Ken Brake at Regal Lane Studio, London

 

Its an impressive debut – it has the sensibilities of a bygone era without sounding out of date.

There’s very few artists these days that will get you thinking in the likes of Woodie Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Billy Bragg, or any of the other great folk artists of the past (and present). But Robert Chaney is definitely one of those. Right there with Vikesh Kapoor and Luke Redfield, a few other modern troubadours carrying the torch today.
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From “Cracked Picture Frames” released April 26, 2015. Buy it now at robertchaney.bandcamp.com/

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GRETTA RAY – ” Unexpected Feeling “

Posted: December 27, 2016 in MUSIC
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Gretta Ray has quite rightly had a massive year with high rotation on the national broadcaster and lots of love from the music press. Her track “Unexpected Feeling” is such a joy to listen to – and to be honest when I first heard it I had no idea that Ray was still in high school. There’s a definite maturity in her songwriting and I just love her guitar work on this track. 17-year-old Melbourne based Gretta Ray is one to watch in 2017, as she independently releases her debut EP ‘Elsewhere’ and first single ‘Unexpected Feeling’ Gretta Ray’s intriguing way of combining lyrical complexities that express personal feelings of love and heartache, with tongue-in-cheek facetious anecdotes, is only part of what makes this young talent so unique.

The emerging Australian musician wrote the 4-track EP when she was just 15 years old. Now 17, the wise-beyond-her-years artist collaborated with producer Joshua Barber, known for his work alongside Australian artists Gotye and Archie Roach, on her debut, which was recorded at The Aviary Recording Studios in Melbourne.

Gretta Ray performing “Unexpected Feeling” at Sofar Melbourne on April 18th, 2015

WILLIAM FITZSIMMONS – ” Hear Your Heart “

Posted: December 27, 2016 in MUSIC
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I was so happy that William Fitzsimmons released his mini album Charleroi: Pittsburgh Vol. 2 this year (as well as a live album) because it meant more songs like “Hear Your Heart” out in the world. Rolling fingerpicking, hushed vocals, sad subject matter. For this is William Fitzsimmons in a nutshell .
Pittsburgh has easily become among my favourite albums of 2015 so when William Fitzsimmons followed it up with a mini-album featuring a bunch of unreleased tracks from the same recording sessions,

Fitzsimmons’ beautiful, melancholic songs and this guys incredible guitar picking draw you in and keep you captivated throughout I love his hushed vocal style. .

“Hear Your Heart” appears on William’s new album titled Charleroi – Pittsburgh Volume 2, available everywhere now

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