Artist: Andrew Adkins Album: The Echoist Label: Elephant Seed Records Across the Cumberland River from Music City, East Nashville has become a haven for artists and songwriters like Andrew Adkins. After a decade as co-founder of bluesy power trio Mellow Down Easy and a spell with short lived rockers Lions for Real, Adkins decided to strike […]
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Artist: Blake Album: HMS Blake Label: Subjangle The South African record label Subjangle certainly seem to have their finger on the pulse, releasing an excellent and eclectic range of music in 2020 from the likes of The Crystal Furs and Alpine Subs. They’ve recently added Blake (the artist Julian Pugsley) to their roster and having given
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Artist: Emma Swift Album: Blonde On The Tracks Label: Tiny Ghost Records The stars were aligned when Emma Swift’s Bob Dylan covers project neared fruition. The project was begun shortly after Dylan had released his own covers album, Triplicate – yet another batch of Great American Songs, which even the most zealous of his aficionados
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Artist: Andrew Wasylyk LP: Fugitive Light And Themes Of Consolation Label: Angel Of The North Having cut his teeth in the indie/folk/rock band The Hazey Janes, Andrew Mitchell, under the alias Andrew Wasylyk has been extremely busy in 2020, releasing an EP with the Scottish poet and playwright Liz Lochhead which Into Creative reviewed here. Following
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Artist: The Roly Mo EP: TRM Label: 7 West Music Gallus: A sense or arrogance and style, swagger, braggish attitude and (mis)behaviour. Only a few can lay claim to being gallus but to that list you can add The Roly Mo on the evidence of their debut EP TRM. Containing 6 songs where the band’s confidence
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Artist: Liz Lochhead & Andrew Wasylyk EP: Still Life, Sweetheart Label: Blackford Hill Battling through the inclement Scottish weather and following a series of ferry cancellations, Liz Lochhead and Andrew Wasylyk descended upon An Tobar, Tobermory’s creative and cultural epicentre early in 2020. Ensconced in the studio along with producer Gordon MacLean they embarked on a
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Artist: Alpine Subs Album: Sweethaven Label: Subjangle Hailing from Chicago, Alpine Subs released their eponymous debut album just 12 months or so ago and hot on its heels comes album number two, Sweethaven. It’s often said that the second album can be a difficult one with creative juices not quite as fertile as that on a
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Artist: OKIRO Song: Deep Love Label: Modern Sky Records Timo Tierney, the lead singer in Liverpool’s Tea Street Band has been busy during lockdown with his side project, OKIRO. With an album, City Pets, due to drop on 31 July, the second single, Deep Love is released today (15 July 2020) and follows on from the first
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Artist: The Crystal Furs Song: Beautiful And True Label: Subjangle Portland, Oregon has a strong tradition of producing innovative and contemporary music throughout the years with exponents such as The Dandy Warhols, The Decemberists and Esperanza Spalding. Continuing that theme are The Crystal Furs with the release of their third album, Beautiful And True. Since their
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Artist: OKIRO Song: Newse Label: Modern Sky Records To be a musician in Liverpool these days can be a daunting task, especially when you consider the rich tapestry of bands and artists who have gone before, from The Beatles to the Bunnymen, Scaffold to Shack and a Cast of hundreds of others. A few years back The
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