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The TALLEST MAN ON EARTH – ” Dark Bird Is Home “

Posted: February 12, 2015 in MUSIC
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“This is not the end, this is fine,” Kristian Matsson declares in the trailer for today’s announcement of his new album as The Tallest Man On Earth, titled “Dark Bird Is Home”. While “fine” is often used as a signifier of the mediocre, Matsson’s intonation suggests that fine has become the summation of living in the moment for him, the opposite of worrying about when the inevitable end will come. I can only guess this is the sentiment that will pervade Dark Bird Is Home, which is  Kristian Matsson’s fourth record and will be out 12th May. No single yet, but you can check out the cover art above and stream a brief, nature-heavy trailer plus the tracklist below.

Dark Bird Is Home tracklist:
01 “Fields of Our Home”
02 “Darkness of the Dream”
03 “Singers”
04 “Slow Dance”
05 “Little Nowhere Towns”
06 “Sagres”
07 “Timothy”
08 “Beginners”
09 “Seventeen”
10 “Dark Bird Is Home”

JOHN MARTYN – ” May You Never “

Posted: February 12, 2015 in MUSIC
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John Martyn – May You Never performed on the [1973] Old Grey Whistle Test, John Martyn was one of the UK’s most respected singer-songwriters. Born Iain David McGeachy in 1948 he changed his name to John Martyn when he took his first tentative steps in the folk clubs of Glasgow and London in the mid 1960s. He soon came to the attention of Chris Blackwell at Island Records who signed him to the label in 1967.” May You Never” is one of the best of John Martyn.

FATHER JOHN MISTY – ” Live at the World Café ” 30th January 2015 on WXPN Radio

Posted: February 7, 2015 in MUSIC
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Live On the World Café…..Father John Misty will feature the American folk singer-songwriter Father John Misty. A native of Washington D.C, the artist formally known as Josh T Tillman moved to Seattle when he was 21, where he eventually caught the eye of a Seattle recording artist Damien Jurado. Opening for Jurado lead to the creation of his debut album I Will Return which saw the conception of his rather angelic and serene tone that became a mainstay for further projects. Having been a member of bands such as Saxon Shore and Fleet Foxes, Tillman once again chose the solo route this time under his new moniker Father John Misty. His current project “I Love You, Honeybear” is set to release on February 15th and if featured singles such as the title track and “Bored in the USA” are concerned, the listener could expect to get a sense of longing, passion, and beautiful complacency.

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ANDREW COMBS – ” Nothing To Lose “

Posted: February 7, 2015 in MUSIC
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For any young artist, an important leap happens when influences are absorbed and the act of mining the past transforms into something personal. That’s what happens on All These Dreams, the second album from the singer-songwriter Andrew Combs, Combs is an impeccable craftsman indebted to not only the troubadour lineageof his native Texas, but to that magical moment at the turn of the 1960s into the 1970s when country, soul, rock and pop balladry all mingled on sophisticated albums by artists as varied as Kris Kristofferson or James Taylor “All These Dreams” flows the way albums did then, with Andrew Combs’s vulnerable voice lifted up within lush arrangements in songs that balance pensiveness with yearning.

“Nothing To Lose,” based around Spencer Cullum, Jr.’s steel-guitar pirouettes, is one of the album’s signature songs. For its video, director Tim Duggan mirrors what Combs and his tight group of collaborators (including Cullum’s duo Steelism and the producers Jordan Lehning and Skylar Wilson) accomplish musically, creating a vintage feel that also registers up close. In elegant monotone, rumpled suit jacket and loosened bolo tie, Combs sings into a vintage microphone. He needs a shave. “Pride got the best of me; she took the rest of me,” he murmurs as the music swirls around him. The camera pans to reveal Combs’s band; at one point, backup singers Erin Rae Mckaskle and Juliana Daily appear superimposed at the front of the frame, a couple of Mod angels. The video keeps Combs’ music at the center while opening up a flood of associations. It’s a classic performance perfect for right now.

LAURA MARLING – ” Woman Driver “

Posted: February 6, 2015 in MUSIC
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Laura Marling is the star in “Woman Driver”, a short film that was directed by Chris Perkel. It was written, directed, and edited as part of the 72-Hour National Film Challenge in Marfa, Texas, and won the award for Best In Genre, Best Actress, and Best Soundtrack. Laura Marling co-wrote the film and plays a hitchhiker opposite Casey Thomas Brown, who drives a school bus that’s been turned into an RV. The film features three new songs from Marling, including at lease one that will be on her forthcoming new album, “Short Movie”.

 

 

GRETCHEN PETERS – ” Pretty Things “

Posted: February 6, 2015 in MUSIC
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When country singer-songwriter Gretchen Peters started thinking about writing her new album “Blackbirds,” she wondered to herself how she’d top her last outing, 2012’s “Hello Cruel World.” “It was a manifesto for me,” she says of it. “I did think in the back of my mind, ‘God, what am I going to do now?”

She answered her own question with “Blackbirds,” her eighth studio album, premiering today on Speakeasy.

“Blackbirds” was record in Nashville and features contributions from songwriter Jason Isbell, dobro master Jerry Douglas and Jimmy Lafave. The songs fluctuate between gritty, dark numbers and lush ballads that touch on death (“Blackbirds”), struggling veterans (“When All You Got Is a Hammer”), and her own childhood (“The House on Auburn Street”). While mortality seems to be one of the topics she honed in on this time around – at one point during the songwriting process, she attended three memorial services in just a week – she has a more existential way of describing this batch of songs. “The album is more about what our awareness of ourselves as temporary beings is,” she says.

Last October, Peters was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame – and for good reason. She’s flirted with mainstream success since the mid-‘90s, when she wrote songs for major acts such as Martina McBride,

MATTHEW E WHITE – ” Tranquility “

Posted: February 6, 2015 in MUSIC
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Matthew E White has said of this song
A year ago today we lost Phillip Seymour Hoffman. I didn’t know Phillip, but I had watched everything he did for 15 years. To me, he was everything one could ever want to be in an artist,Very soon after his death it became crystal clear to me that I wanted to try very hard and write a song for him. He deserved something from me, something that honored him, and showed how grateful I was for all he had given. “His death was immensely sad and as deaths such as these go, leaves us crushed that a life so bright has been dimmed. There is a duality in these circumstances, it’s a place where we find darkness in the light, but more powerfully, we find light in the darkness. I tried to find music that felt the same. It’s my best shot, and it’s called Tranquility” To a man that showed me, over and over, what excellence and craft is, here is a song for you.

EAVES – ” Spin “

Posted: February 5, 2015 in MUSIC
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Eaves is pleased to announce his debut album “What Green Feels Like” will be released on HEAVENLY RECORDINGS on Monday April 27th. You can get the song “Spin” as an instant download when you pre-order the album on iTunes now http://bit.ly/1BSjuX4

Leeds-based folk troubadour Eaves has announced his debut long-player What Green Feels Like, and a new single called “Spin”.

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The 9-track album will feature previously released cuts like “Timber” and “As Old As The Grave” as well as a range of new tracks. Speaking about the upcoming LP, Eavessaid:

“My songs are very emotional and change dramatically. To perform them, I have to be in the zone. I remember where I was when I wrote them and why I wrote them. I have to perform them in the way they were written; otherwise I’m letting myself and the audience down.”

What Green Feels Like, produced by Cam Blackwood, is set to be released 27 April on Heavenly Records.

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MARIKA HACKMAN – ” Open Wide “

Posted: February 5, 2015 in MUSIC
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Marika Hackman releases her Debut Album ‘We Slept At Last’ Happy to announce after singles and EP’s that Marika Hackman’s debut album ‘We Slept At Last’ will be released in February 2015. there are also some instore performances including the new Rough Trade Store in Nottingham. The album comes following a series of hugely revered singles and EP’s over the last year, and has been produced by long-term collaborator Charlie Andrew (Alt J, Eugene Mcguinness).

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THIS IS THE KIT – ” Bashed Out “

Posted: February 5, 2015 in MUSIC
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Kate Stables has been recording music as This Is The Kit for years now, but this is probably one of the first times you’re reading about her. “Bashed Out” will be her third full-length album, and since Aaron Dessner and the National stumbled into one of her shows by happenstance and immediately fell for her sound, it will also likely be her breakout. The record is coming out via Dessner’s own Brassland label the title track  “Bashed Out” digs into the mud, muck, and shit of life, Kate Stables sings and plays guitar, trumpet, percussion and banjo throughout the record, but you’ll especially notice the way she handles a banjo, turning an often hackneyed sound into a thing of delicacy. In some ways, it seems like successful artists have morphed into the only useful A&R forces, and if I could, I’d personally thank the Dessners for unearthing Stables. You might remember Sharon Van Etten also shouted out This Is The Kit a few years ago as her favorite new artist — Stables This Is The Kit has opened for Van Etten, Jose Gonzales, Jeffrey Lewis, Alexi Murdoch, Iron & Wine, and the National.

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