If you’re in need of a little calm, a little introspection, a little Laura Marling or Joni Mitchell, then I highly recommend checking out the new single from Liverpool folk musician Grace Elizabeth Harvey. She’s released the lovely track “The Dream Of Common Language” to announce her new EP Songs Of Devotion, which is out Oct. 16.
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“If you don’t water your garden, I will/ If you don’t show her you love her, I will/ She means more so much more to me than to you/ All of your hard work I’ll surely do.” So goes “Garden,” our latest preview from Alabama Shakes’ comeback album I Must Be Dreaming. It’s a soft and sultry Southern soul track that feels way to real and raw to qualify as pastiche. Brittany Howard sounds genuinely distressed about the way this woman is being treated and even more eager to treat her right. Alabama Shakes debuted “Garden” on Zane Lowe’s show Tuesday, and you can hear it below.
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Rhode Island’s Newport Folk Festival went down a couple weeks ago, and CMAT stole the spotlight. Stereogum sat down with the Irish star and made her explain the cultural references that abound in her Mercury Prize-nominated album Euro-Country. Like, who is Cú Chulainn? Where is Dunboyne? What is Calpol? Is petrol gasoline? Now we finally have answers.
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Last year, Jacques Greene teamed up with Nosaj Thing to release an album as Verses GT. Now, the Canadian electronic musician is back to announce his new LP jg, which features crushed, CFCF, Jonah Yano, SEES00000, and more.
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Jay-Z has been out there this year, celebrating the 30th anniversary of his debut album Reasonable Doubt, the 25th anniversary of The Blueprint, and his overall superstar legacy with high-profile gigs at the Roots Picnic and Yankee Stadium. His chart-topping “Empire State Of Mind” also got a lot of burn during the New York Knicks’ run to the NBA championship. But one thing missing from the campaign has been new music.
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Love & Devotion is one of the best albums of the year, but are we sure it’s from this year? The third LP from Philadelphia-based siblings Sam and Louise Sullivan plays like a lost treasure that has been collecting dust for decades and is now being reissued by Light In The Attic. Pulling inspiration from retro psych-pop, country, traditional folk, funk, reggae, and a wide range of global sounds, the Sullivans ended up with a batch of songs so charming, catchy, and “wonky” (their word) that it simultaneously feels fresh and sounds like it was recorded half a century ago.
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Hana Stretton releases her second album tiarn this Friday. So far the British-Australian ambient-folk artist has unveiled “Stove,” “Salt,” “Seagull Theory II,” and “As It Was Before This,” and now she’s back with another captivating preview called “From.”
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This summer brought the welcome news that Royal Trux’s Jennifer Herrema had reactivated her Black Bananas project for an album with new label home Fire Records. We soon learned that album is called Bad Bunch, and we heard its lead single “Turkey Burgers.” The track was a revelation, a zonked chillwave-funk jam that made me feel like I was surfing this website at the dawn of the 2010s and reading breathless reports about Brooklyn warehouse parties. I’m pleased to report that the next single is just as good.
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Last month Told Slant announced their new record What’s Up and released the lead single “Manhattan.” Today the NYC indie mainstay is back with some more quintessential NYC indie, this time in the form of a beautiful yet bleak song called “Draw Blood.”
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Step aside, Fergie — a new interesting rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” has entered into the canon. Unfortunately, Martha Reeves went viral for her unconventional performance of the national anthem at the inaugural Women’s Professional Baseball League game on Saturday (Aug. 1). The Motown legend was accompanied by backup singers at the Robin Roberts Stadium in Springfield, Illinois, and it turns out she didn’t want them to be a part of the performance at all.
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