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James Morrison – The Awakening review
Looking like Chris Martin and with a voice like Ray LaMontagne, English folk/soul rocker James Morrison writes songs about new love, lost love and everything in between. “You Give Me Something,” the only track from his debut album, Undiscovered, to go on the charts in this country, was an incredibly soulful power ballad reminiscent of fellow Brit Adele’s “Chasing Pavements,” with its symphonic backdrop. Two years later, Morrison’s sophomore effort, Songs for You, Truths for Me, featured an epic duet [...]
Fruit Bats – Tripper album review
Tripper is a shoegaze album that recalls Vampire Weekend, with a few lazy acoustic guitar riffs. Eric Johnson’s voice has the high coyness of T-Rex’s Marc Bolan. The effect is one weird album. And, for a band from Austin, TX, perhaps this shouldn’t come as a surprise. At once dreamy, nostalgic, and surreal, Tripper doesn’t take itself too seriously. For an album so rife with sixties and seventies references, this irreverence is appropriate. It doesn’t sound too much like they’re [...]
City and Colour – Little Hell album review
City and Colour is a side project of AlexisonFire guitarist, Dallas Green. His new album Little Hell is a big departure from Alexonfire’s post-hardcore and punk sound. Little Hell is Green flexing his singer songwriter muscle and throwing plenty of influences in along the way. There are traces of Americana, folk and a country western hidden throughout the tracks that bring acts like Ray LaMontagne or Dawes to mind. The thing I was questioning with this album is whether City [...]
Felice Brothers – Celebration, Florida album review
‘Celebration, Florida’ is the 4th venture from the New York City based Felice Brothers, and evokes all the right feelings that music should be without getting bogged down in over production. It’s unpretentious as a whole and makes no excuses for the grimy opener, ‘Fire at the Pageant’, a foot stomping call-and-repeat noise extravaganza that’s easy to enjoy. Somehow, it segues beautifully into ‘Container Ship’, a song that relies on a piano and dreamy soundscape to perfectly balance the first [...]
Show Review: Laura Stevenson and the Cans at the El Mocambo, May 7th
Laura Stevenson is one of the nicest, if not the nicest, people I’ve ever met. I could tell this would be the case when about three years ago I asked her for some guitar tabs to her songs over a Myspace message and she actually went out of her way to give them to me, reassuring me that she was at her mother’s house for a Labor Day BBQ, but that she would send me them as soon as she [...]
Young Love recording artists Quitzow and Setting Sun launch extensive U.S. tour and new albums merging classical, folk, pop and electronic rock sounds.
New York State multi-instrumentalist artists Quitzow and Setting Sun launch an extensive co-headlining U.S. tour this week, showcasing songs from both bands’ new albums on Young Love Records. The two groups share more than a label and tour dates, however. Quitzow, the namesake of songwriter/singer/multi-instrumentalist Erica Quitzow features Setting Sun songwriter/guitarist/vocalist Gary Levitt alternately adding bass, drums and vocals to its live shows. Likewise, the Levitt-led Setting Sun band includes Erica Quitzow on violin and backing vocals.
