Sound Cloud Sunday – July 11, 2021
Sound Cloud Sunday July 11, 2021
Another week another great set of new indie music for you on Sound Cloud Sunday. @laurelcanyonsound. Enjoy! Entire show on demand, click below:
Courtney Barnett – Rae Street
Hometown: Sydney, Australia
Album: From the album “Things That Take Time, Take Time” out November 12.
Review Snippet:
Website: https://courtneybarnett.com.au/
Kyle Vincent – Wake Me Up When The World Is Worth Waking Up To
Hometown: Berkeley, CA
Album: From the Kyle Vincent Singles collection, undetermined release date.
Review Snippet: The award-winning singer/songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist returns with Whatever It Takes– a stunning new album of original, captivating contemporary pop songs, drenched in soulful melodies, rich orchestration, heartfelt lyrics, and sparkling vocals, reminiscent of the great radio songs of the 60s & 70s, yet sounding refreshingly fresh.
Website: https://www.kylevincent.com/
The Moon City Masters – Starstruck
Hometown: Brooklyn, NY
Album: New single.
Review Snippet: Meet The Moon City Masters: Brooklyn twins reviving 70s groove-rock. For those that are searching for a band with influences steeped in the golden era but confidently driving it into the 21st century, look no further
Website: https://www.mooncitymasters.com/
Bandits On The Run – Now Is The Time
Hometown: New York City
Album: From the EP “Now Is The Time” released June 25.
Review Snippet: The resulting EP, fittingly titled Now is the Time, is hands-down Bandits on the Run’s most daring, lush, and sophisticated work yet. Seamlessly shifting from shades of The Beatles to Fleetwood Mac to David Byrne to Laurel Canyon, the Bandits’ musical influences are apparent in the EP while still carving out a distinctive voice all their own. Everyone in the trio writes their own songs and takes turns singing lead, which means on this six song EP each member gets two songs to step into the spotlight and showcase their melodic, lyrical, and vocal prowess. Very rarely does a band feature three voices equally matched in skill and power, each sounding so completely different from the others and yet still masterfully blending so well together. “That’s the alchemy that’s been there since Day 1,” says Regina. “You can practice all you want (and we do) but if that spark of magic isn’t there it’ll never sound quite right. We are so lucky we found that spark in each other.”
Website: http://www.banditsontherun.nyc/
Sarah Walk – The Key
Hometown: Chicago, IL
Album: From the album “Another Me” available on her website.
Review Snippet: The album itself is like a smooth snuggle of honey trickling down your ear and massaging your brain. It tells you it will get better but that pain will be part of the healing process. Sarah Walk pulls punches but she also knows how to make meaty resolutions and that is why this album, both in its music and narrative, is an absolute triumph.
Website: http://www.sarahwalkmusic.com/
Grant Maloy Smith – The Coal Comes Up
Hometown: Jacksonville, FL
Album: From the album “Appalachia Southern Stories” out June 25.
Review Snippet: The third album in singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Grant Maloy Smith’s roots music series is called Appalachia: American Stories. It follows his critically-acclaimed releases, Yellow Trailer and Dust Bowl: American Stories. As “The Coal Comes Up” opens, Jelly Roll Johnson’s harmonica wails mournfully beneath Smith’s lyrics and their deliberate exclamation of inner turmoil. Matt Combs’ fiddle, Rob Ickes’ Dobro and Trey Hensley’s guitar converse in the bouncy “Down to Hatchabee Road,” a song of going down to the river to wash one’s sins away. All twelve original tunes, written by Smith, provide folksy tales to enjoy. “The Red Haired Girl from Hazard” is a tribute to his mother, “Sometimes You’re the Holler” is a make-believe story of some little girls and their grandmother. “Gas Station Chicken” shows Smith’s witty side with a musical recipe that’s finger-pickin’ good.
Website: https://www.grant-maloy-smith.com
Rosie Flores And The Talisman – So Sad
Hometown: San Antonio, TX
Album: New single released July 9 on Mule Kick Records.
Review Snippet:
Rosie Flores has been a cornerstone of American roots music for more than four decades, leaving her mark upon the intersecting worlds of rockabilly, blues, western swing, California country, jazz, and roadhouse rock & roll.
She’s a songwriter. A pioneering frontwoman. A guitar virtuoso and hard-touring road warrior whose milestones are just as diverse as her music, including nominations from the CMA and ACM Awards, a Peabody, two Ameripolitan Awards, and a long line of acclaimed solo albums. Still breaking new ground, she returns to her roots with her newest project, Rosie Flores and The Talismen.
Website: http://rosieflores.com/
David Goundry – Fire & Water
Hometown: UK
Album: New single released July 9 from the EP “Time And Place”
Review Snippet: Reminiscent of laid-back 70’s singer-songwriters . Bluesy, folksy finger picking and blues rock riffs aligned to well crafted melodies.
Website: https://groover.co/en/band/profile/0.david-goundry/
Rose City Band – Feel Of Love
Hometown: Portland, OR
Album: From the album “Earth Trip” released June 25 on Thrill Jockey.
Review Snippet: Earth Trip is the third record in as many years by Rose City Band; the laid-back-cosmic-country outlet for guitarist and songwriter Ripley Johnson. Though he is known for the psychedelia of projects Wooden Shjips and Moon Duo, Rose City Band continues to prove itself as an attention-worthy foray. The arrangements are tighter but still feel free to explore and sprawl in length. The lyrics are concise. It’s clear Johnson is comfortable in these songs and confident in the themes they explore.
Website: https://rosecityband.bandcamp.com/
Mark Rogers – Every Once In Awhile
Hometown: Williamsburg, VA
Album: Single released June 28.
Review Snippet: With his new LP “Laying It Down”, singer/songwriter Mark Rogers cements his place in the indie folk pop scene as not just a reliably strong composer, but as a sonic force to be reckoned with. “Laying It Down” features a certain cinematic texture in lyrical delivery that makes his work flow much better than most.-
Website: https://markrogers1.bandcamp.com/
Eric Shicotte – Miss’ry Pacific
Hometown: Milwaukee, WI
Album: From the EP of the same name out July 16 on Black Country.
Review Snippet: With his booming voice bobbing and weaving around fiddle and steel punches and a rollicking train beat, Wisconsin-based singer, songwriter, and ironworker Erik Shicotte doesn’t waste time getting his point across in the first few seconds of Miss’ry Pacific, his brand new EP to be released on July 16th via Black Country Rock Media. In a six song span, listeners will be greeted with waltzes, train songs, honky tonkers, and country ramblers, on which Shicotte sings with humor and pathos about trains, trucks, and hard-working heroes who hang out around highways, rails, and honky-tonks. Well studied in the art of outlaw-ism, there are echoes of the greats in Shicotte’s songs—Waylon, Willie, Cash, Haggard, and the wit of the late great John Prine, just to name a few—but underneath it all lies a hard-working authenticity that puts him, along with contemporaries like Colter Wall, into a level of legitimacy unobtainable by some of today’s drugstore cowboy songwriters.
Website: https://erikshicotte.com/
Joe Bourdet – El Capitan (2021 Mix)
Hometown: Los Angeles
Album: From the debut album “Meadow Rock” released in June on Mountain Sound Recordings.
Review Snippet:
The sonic profile of the album harkens strongly to the early to mid 70s folk-rock and singer/songwriter era, the Laurel Canyon sound, as it is popularly known. The vocals are folk vocals, unassuming, unaffected, untrained and, where vibe over precision prevails, not adverse to straying from perfect intonation. The presence of several female voices in support of Bourdet’s is a big feature, Mimi Michel lends a cosmic country feel to the songs El Capitan and Call You Friend, whilst Alana Amram, who co-wrote Lost Along the Way, evokes the darker shades of The Mamas and The Papas. Guitar being Bourdet’s primary instrument, they are liberally applied throughout these compositions. The acoustics use some natural ambience where possible, and strive toward clarity and realism. The electric guitars frequently employ the swirling effect of a spinning Leslie speaker cabinet, and betray a fondness for various melodic guitar heroes; George Harrison, Joe Walsh, Duane Allman, and David Lindley. The rhythm sections are anchored variously by three distinctive drummers, the Memphis grooves of George Sluppick, the muted Nigel Olsson-esque fills and rock power of Will Scott, and the flowing and creative folk rock flourishes of Justin Smith. Long time collaborator Brian Filosa chugs along joyously on bass on many of the songs as well.
Website: https://www.joebourdet.com/
Cliff Beach – I Got Soul
Hometown: Los Angeles
Album: New single.
Review Snippet: Funk/Jazz/Soul music artist Cliff Beach has been performing live for more than 15 years in Los Angeles. The Berklee-trained singer/songwriter/keyboardist and DC native has created a style of music he coins as “Nu-funk”, a hybrid of soul, traditional R&B, jazz, funk and neo-soul which he performs regularly throughout Southern California. In 2013, Cliff released the highly anticipated “Who the Funk is Cliff Beach?” EP, independently, which was nominated for three LA Music Awards including “Record of the Year” and one Hollywood Musi c in Media award). Cliff also received national press in a featured live review in Music Connection Magazine in Nov. 2013 and was a featured performer at TEDx Napa Valley in March 2014. in 2017 Cliff’s album “The Gospel According to Cliff Beach”, was nominated for an Independent Music Award (Funk/Fusion Jam Album) and winner of 2 Global Music Awards. His video for the single “Delilah” won best Music Video at the 2018 Divulge Dancers’ Film Festival in Hollywood,CA. Cliff is a voting Member of NARAS, a Songwriter and Publisher with BMI and an award-winning member of Toastmasters International. PR by Tiny Human, Radio Promotion by Distiller Promo/Sanford Co, Licensing by SoundX3 and booking by Definitive Talents worldwide. Distribution by California Soul Music. Endorsed by TC Helicon. Cliff is currently set to release new singles in 2019, “Movin’ On” feat. Alex Nester and “Confident” feat. The MB’s.
Website: https://m.facebook.com/cliffbeachmusic/
The Wallflowers – The Dive Bar In My Heart
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Album: From the album “Exit Wounds” out July 9 on New West.
Review Snippet: On their first album in nearly a decade, Jakob Dylan and co. return with highway ballads and Saturday afternoon rockers, sounding like the classic rock band they’ve always ached to be.
Website: https://www.wallflowersmusic.com/
Strand of Oaks – Galacticana
Hometown: Goshen, IN
Album: From the album “In Heaven” out October 1
Review Snippet:
Strand of Oaks—the music project of Tim Showalter—has announced a new album. In Heaven, Showalter’s eighth album under the alias, is out October 1. It’s led by the single “Galacticana;” below, check out a visualizer for the song, in addition to the album cover art and tracklist.
In Heaven is the first Strand of Oaks album to be recorded since Showalter’s move to Austin, Texas. He recorded the follow-up to Eraserland with friend and past collaborator Kevin Ratterman at Ratterman’s Invisible Creature studios in Los Angeles. According to a press release, Showalter reflects on love and loss, as well as his newfound sobriety, throughout the album.
In addition to other returning players from previous Strand of Oaks albums (such as Carl Broemel and Bo Koster of My Morning Jacket), the new record includes contributions from Smashing Pumpkins’ James Iha on the song “Easter.”
Website: https://www.strandofoaks.net/music
