Good Grief, Woodward’s sophomore album, is not for the faint of heart. Composed in response to the loss of several people close to Woodward, Good Grief is much more ambitious in scale than Letters We Told. The album begins with…
Australian troubadour Rick Hart has brought us two more EPs of well-honed country rock. City Lights operates as a triptych of songs: three odes to a woman who left the outback (or at least that’s what I’m imagining) for the…
Listening to Scheherazade, Freakwater’s first album in 9 years, is an immersive experience. Janet Beveridge Bean and Catherine Irwin, the band’s founding duo, have worked together on and off for over 25 years. That shows in Scheherazade‘s rich tapestry of…
I’ve been sitting on this one for a while now. I’ve written about Lela Sophia in the past. I appreciate her minimalist approach to songwriting, which creates a trance-like aura around Sophia’s dreamy lyrics. This is very much Netflix and…
It seems fitting to review New Orleans native Michael Cerveris’ debut album while everyone’s nursing their Mardi Gras hangovers. And considering half of the city of New Orleans was involved in the making of this album (see the “Labels” for…