This isn’t a competition. It’s a collaboration.
All in QUICK HITS
“Maybe I'm a sucker for "_grove" bands, but this is great. Everything is well composed. However, the vocals are absolutely stunning with the instrumentation. Hard to imagine a better match.”
Kicks off with loveliness from Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin and before Robert Lester Folsom starts singing 'see you later', you'll hear: a corker from Alabama Shakes, Mountain Man covering a mountain man, GRANDMAS with the all the As taken out, Will Johnson, T.Rex, The Weather Station and a bunch more great stuff.
"hauntingly beautiful, these songs pull emotions out of me like long noodles in a hot soup which then I can more or less tenderly soak back up"
“I'm a bit of a sucker for jams that mix in old audio samples; always seems to trigger a gravitational force that pulls me further into the headphones for a closer listen. This EP has got that thing. And you’ll find yourself wanting to go back to the start once you get to the end."
The Soundcloud playlist for this month’s approved Submithub submissions is now up & running for February 2018.
More beautiful & way less weird than I went in expecting, mostly due to me being sceptical of people using the term "genius" & “before its time" & a little bit just not trusting people in general. Unrelated: I kept finding myself thinking “I bet José González really loves this record.”
EPISODE 060 kicks off with some Wilder Maker and closes out with a track from that Elliott Smith cover album from Seth Avett & Jessica Lea Mayfield that I totally forgot had happened. In between those, you'll hear some new-to-me Isaac Brock solo stuff, newish Beirut and oldish Cory Branan… and a whole bunch more.
“Expected this to be good but, wow, I didn't expect it to be this awesome! If you love White Lighter don't hesitate, you'll love this!”
“I'm Qualified To Satisfy You"—with its perfect combination of confidence and practicalness—is probably the best chat-up line ever. That Barry does not beat around the bush, even though that's exactly what he wants to do (if you catch my drift).
“Dan Willson of Withered Hand lore is the best writer of melodies currently alive (believe me, I've looked). He hasn't written a song I don't adore. The streak continues here. I'm also happy to report that the songs from a Singer of Songs are also quite lovely, especially the last. Buy this and everything these two outfits have ever produced.”
