Sound Cloud Sunday February 24, 2019 Episode 41
Sound Cloud Sunday February 24, 2019
Lots of new indie music from old familiar faces this week. We’ll post the full show that broadcast on Sunday here next week!
Hayes Carll – Wild Pointy Finger
Hometown: Woodlands, TX
Album: From the album “What It Is” released February 15 on Dualtone Records.
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Next Time in LA: May 3 at the Troubadour
Website: http://www.hayescarll.com
Suzanne Jarvie – The Core
Hometown: Toronto, Ontario
Album: From her debut album “In The Clear” released January 22 on Wolfe Island Records.
Review Snippet: No Depression described Jarvie’s voice as “seraphim-pure, reaching out and lifting your spirit often without permission.”
Website: http://suzannejarvie.com/
Birdsong At Morning – Waterfall
Hometown: Lowell, MA
Album: From their debut album “Signs And Wonders” released last August on Blue Gentian Records.
Review Snippet: Thought-provoking and soul-baring, Birdsong At Morning’s music spins elegant tapestries of sound, words, and melodies that reflect the city’s solid foundation of the still standing brickwork, and the warmth of the beating hearts within this community.
Website: https://www.birdsongatmorning.com
Todd Snider – Like A Force Of Nature (featuring Jason Isbell)
Hometown: Portland, OR
Album: From his 17th album Cash Cabin Sessions Vol 3 out March 15 on Aimless Records.
Review Snippet: Beginning in 1994 with his twangy, alt-country debut, “Songs for the Daily Planet,” for Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville label, Mr. Snider, now 52, has spent the better part of the past 25 years writing pin-sharp, big-hearted, devilishly funny songs that empathize with an unusually elastic assortment of protagonists: hard-working, beer-drinking 9-to-5ers, for sure, but also pop-culture bogeymen (Mike Tyson, Marilyn Manson), weirdo jocks (the pitcher Dock Ellis, who said he once tossed a no-hitter while high on LSD), even the guy who once mugged Mr. Snider at gunpoint near his home in East Nashville, Tenn.
Website: https://toddsnider.net/home/
Roseanne Reid – I Love Her So
Hometown: Edinbrough, Scotland
Album: From the forthcoming album “Amy” produced by Teddy Thompson.
Review Snippet: Reid’s songs conjure more from less, exuding a quiet confidence and sparse authenticity that recalls some of the genre’s leading lights such as Gillian Welch and Lucinda Williams, but with a tone that belongs to Roseanne and no one else. No wonder, then, that Americana legend Steve Earle has not only adopted Reid as a personal cause, but makes a guest appearance on the delightful ‘Sweet Annie.’
Website: https://www.facebook.com/RoseanneReidMusic/
Gurf Morlix – Turpentine
Hometown: Austin, TX
Album: From his 10th album “Impossible Blue” released February 8 on Rootball Records.
Review Snippet: Naturally, the ever-evolving arc of his songwriting has begun to bend more confessional of late, too — though even his most open-hearted reveals on IMPOSSIBLE BLUE prove that living-on-bonus-time Gurf Morlix is still unmistakably, well, Gurf Morlix. Suffice it to say, it would take a lot more than a mere brush with death to flip his default switch from blues to zippity-doo-dah. When Morlix alludes to his heart attack — or rather, his life after his heart attack — here, it’s with the stoic resolve of a battle-scarred survivor, grateful to still be kicking but arguably still more more bewildered than enlightened: “My head is throbbin’, my world keeps wobblin’ / All the alarms are soundin’ / But my heart keeps poundin’.” (“My Heart Keeps Poundin’”). And in “Sliver of Light,” he’s right back on the road again, driving to yet another gig in another town, still peddling his own songs of the dispossessed. Some are leavened with dark humor or even a glimmer of hope — two wild cards he’s always kept up his sleeve. But often as not, they’re steeped in impossible sorrow, be it all-too-real like Michael Bannister’s and that of the ones he left behind, or dredged from the darkest corners of Morlix’s imagination. In the chilling “I’m a Ghost,” a restless spirit howls unheard for justice, and two songs later, a man mourns for a drowned lover at the “Bottom of the Musquash River.”
Next Time In LA: April 27 at the Eclectic Music Festival in Pasadena and April 28 at McCabe’s Guitar Shop in Santa Monica.
Website: https://www.gurfmorlix.com/
Common Ground – Hangman
Hometown: New York City
Album: From their album “Wayward” released January 25 (self-released
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Website: https://www.facebook.com/commongroundbandnyc
White Owl Red – Star Crossed Lover
Hometown: San Francisco, CA
Album: From the forthcoming album “Existential Frontiers” out March 1 on Hush Mouse Records.
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Website: https://whiteowlred.com/music
Reid Genaur And Folks – Conspire To Smile
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Album: From the album “Conspire to Smile” released last June on Stone Choir Records.
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Website: https://www.reidgenauer.com/
Leon III – Faded Mountain
Hometown: Nashville
Album: Self-titled debut album released last May on Cornelius Chapel Records
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Website: https://www.leoniii.com/
Jeff Cramer – Sweetheart Away
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Bob Sumner – New York City
Hometown: Vancouver, BC
Album: From his self-released album solo debut album “Wasted Love Songs” out on January 25.
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Website: https://bobsumnermusic.com/
Roni Alter – Roads With No Names
Hometown: Herzliya, Israel
Album: From the album “Be Her Child Again” released February 8 on Parlaphone France, not available yet in US.
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Website: https://www.facebook.com/ronialter
Khana Bierbood-Jeanmaryn
Hometown: Bangsaen, Thailand
Album: From their debut album “Strangers From The Far East” released on Gururun Records in January.
Review Snippet:
On their latest album, Khana Bierbood call themselves Strangers from the Far East, but there’s something strangely familiar about the Thai quintet’s debut LP. Throwing garage rock, surf, and psychedelic pop into one delightfully lo-fi mix, the seven-track album recalls the warm, radiating vibes of the ’60s and early ’70s, yet the consistent influence of traditional music from Thailand serves to inject its common inspirations with a refreshingly uncommon edge.
Charmingly retro tracks like “Jeanmaryn” and “Plankton Bloom” are full of the echoing guitars, wistful harmonies, and perky bass you’d expect from a summery, surf-tinged indie album. But the inclusion of airy keyboards and non-Western scales makes the condensed pop Khana Bierbood offer sound much stranger and more transportive than it has any right to be
Website: https://daily.bandcamp.com/2019/01/03/khana-bierbood-strangers-from-the-far-east-review/
Anthony Mills – Barefoot In Pineville
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Album: From his debut album “Blue Collar Work Ethic” released February 8 on Icons Creating Evil Art Records.
Review Snippet:
With a background in hip-hop and production, Anthony was persuaded forget these styles to try singing in the style of his homeland by producer David Belafonte. When Anthony realised that this was fundamentally a storytelling genre, he knew it was the right approach for his songs. Mills found laying out his family’s history liberating, while at times bringing him to tears in the studio.
Mills is a great grandchild of the industrial revolution, his family migrating from Lake Charles, Louisiana to Akron, laying roots in Flint and Detroit, Michigan along the way. Mills feels that the factory spirit is in his genes, along with the voodoo of his French-Creole Grandma Mills-Anglenais. He tells his family’s story with elements of Americana, Blues and old plantation songs to express the blue-collar inertia that runs through his veins
Website: https://anthonymillsartist.bandcamp.com/album/blue-collar-work-ethic
