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Elephant Micah conjures up beautiful, elegant, weighty tunes
Songs:Ohia plays a critical role in my musical history, somewhat akin to the lack of respect Bob Welch gets for keeping Fleetwood Mac together until they could get around to recording awesome things....
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Quick Hits: The Finest Hour / Michael Glazer / The Knitted Cap Club
Should you put your best song first on an album? The Finest Hour falls on the affirmative side of the argument, as “Never Heard of Dylan” opens up These Are the Good Old Days on the highest of notes....
View ArticleTop 36 songs of the year
I usually like to get this post to a nice round number, but I didn’t get it there this year. Here’s what my year sounded like, y’all! This post isn’t ranked; instead, it’s a playlist of sorts. My...
View ArticleTop 20 albums of the year: 10-1
10. Elephant Micah – Louder Than Thou. Gentle and repetitive slowcore folk can be absolutely emotively crushing in the right hands, and Elephant Micah owns those hands. 9. Mumford and Sons – Babel. How...
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Quick Hits: Tender Mercy / Major Leagues / Aaron Lee Tasjan
– Fans of lo-fi slowcore like Songs:Ohia, Elephant Micah, and old-school Damien Jurado will have something new to cheer about in Tender Mercy. As Someone Else You Embrace the Moment in Us consists of...
View ArticleSingles and some mourning for Jason Molina
1. “Great White Shark” – Hollands. Maximalist indie-rock/pop music with groove, noise, melodic clarity, effusive enthusiasm, strings, harp, and just about everything else you can ask for. If the...
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Elephant Micah’s minimalist folk lets the sunshine in
Elephant Micah‘s Where In Our Woods is the lovely sort of album that makes everything seem warmer and more intimate. Micah is prone to long, droning minimalist folk tunes, but on this album he...
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Quick Hits: Kris Orlowski / In Tall Buildings / Michael Malarkey
Singer/songwriter Kris Orlowski has been a shooting star for the fast few years, moving quickly from local roots to premiering his latest album Believer on Pandora to recording a three-song EP with...
View ArticlePremiere: The Co Founder’s Whiskey and 45’s
Whiskey & 45’s by The Co Founder The Co Founder‘s Whiskey and 45’s is a raw, stripped-down acoustic offering that falls at the intersection of slowcore singer/songwriter vibes, rough-n-tumble...
View Article32 Songs I Loved in 2015 (In no particular order)
Here’s a non-comprehensive, unordered list of 32 tunes that I just really loved in 2015. They approximately go from fast and loud to quiet. Happy 2016, y’all. “Let’s Go Jump Into the Fire” – Devin...
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2015 Albums of the Year
Instead of writing new blurbs for each of these albums, I’m going to let the reviews stand as my comments about each of them except the album of the year. Since I had so many EPs on my EPs of the year...
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