Jul 18: Week 29 of the year brings plenty of Summer cool-downs. We got quite emotional with these listens. The line-up is full with outspoken individuals this week. We’ve got new works from the likes of hard life, Billie Marten, Alex G and Lord Huron.
onion
hard life
A deeply layered lo-fi pop project that comes off the back of a turbulent time, onion marks fork in the road for a band who’s future is still up in the air. An introspective Murray darts from the soft to the somber on 14 tracks compartmentalised into hard truths that don’t pack the same punch as previous albums.
Dog Eared
Billie Marten
A warm and fuzzy scrawling of jazz-folk, Billie Marten’s fifth Dog Eared is a curated triumph. Billie keeps us grounded with sepia-toned flash remarks, urban environment sonics and mulch-blues in a panoramic of a vintage cabin – scorched from the log-burning fire. Much like the cover art portrayed in paint, the album implores to be reliant solely on its sonic cues, a deep embedding of keeping the world where it is.
Headlights
Alex G
A wonderfully weird grasp on reality as we see it. A man hyper-focused into the world of cinematics, everyone’s favourite indie-folk artist gulfs the silence with a new release in three years. The emotionally rich biopic-friendly tops the lot in the album to look out of a rain speckled window.
The Cosmic Selector Vol. 1
Lord Huron
Another sonic juggernaut in the world of sad folk that wallops you right in the gut, Lord Huron continues his search for that eternal tune with a perpetual search for himself in the Californian desert. The Cosmic Selector Vol. 1 is a acoustic folk-pop of wispy atmospherics caught up in the sand-dunes and a doozy delight of harmonics, marred by a mirage of what could’ve been.
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