The Hollering Pines call their sophomore album a collection of “worried songs for worried times.” And while it’s not surprising that I’d write about music with an underpinning of anxiety, that’s not necessarily what I’d call Mansion of Heartbreak. Certainly…
I would be most indebted to anyone who can explain why so many Scandinavian musicians perform in English. For a genre that so heavily relies on lyrics, it can be tough to dig into a folk or country song if…
EPs don’t often cover as much ground as Brooks Dixon’s White Roses, which should tell you a little bit about Dixon’s songcraft. The EP is his third release, and that shows with the gentle strength behind each of these songs,…
New relationships can be a scary time. Maybe what you want isn’t the same as the other (or one of the other) people. Maybe you thought you wanted one thing at the start, and as time goes on you find…
For every artist you see featured here, there’s at least 99 whom I chose not to write about. If I had received any one of the songs on Dustin Price’s Sleep It Off, I would’ve known instantly that it was…