The thing about this album is how personal it is. She does a love/breakup/relationship record, which is such the overplayed theme, but somehow her treatments seem fresh. This track has the folk song turned lush rock anthem that gives a good flavor of the album. A song like “House Full of Empty Rooms” shows just how good she is at covering this well-worn territory, and just might make you cry.
We’re bringing the site back. I’ll welcome you back, not with a bang, but with beauty. Simple yet deep is hard to accomplish. On this track, Pale Seas bring a low-fi bedroom song to you, but with rolling ripples of sound making it something more, but not too much. It’s hard to listen just once.
Warpaint is a sort of cynical counter to another So Cal band, Local Natives. Hazy folk music gets run over and washed out by this group. If Superchunk was the TWBM autumn antidote, Warpaint is all about reveling in the long shadows, streaming sunlight, and early dusk.
Do autumn leaves, acoustic guitars, and hipster beards have you down? Don’t worry! Superchunk just released a new album. The Merge Records founders are back after nearly a decade. They aren’t afraid to crank up the distortion pedal, let a big guitar riff fly, and sing with all they’ve got. Thank you Superchunk for lifting my spirits with rock and roll, real rock and roll.
Led Zepplin’s Robert Plant brings a mellower, middle-aged sort of dirty rock sensibility to this roots revival project. Sure, it doesn’t have the raw sexual energy of the Mighty Zep. But there is a subtle, angry drone in the background here letting you know they could erupt if they wanted to, but sometimes you just want to sit in your rocking chair on the front porch with Patty Griffith, Buddy Miller, and Robert Plant.
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