Ali Burress — Dwell
Ali Burress sounds so self-assured on her new EP, Dwell, that it’s hard to believe she’s 19. The five songs in this EP are swooning odes to creativity. They are unhurried and feel as if Burress is in complete control…
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Fred Thomas — Changer
If anyone can capture the messiness and frustration and chaos and yearning and anxiety and elation and disappointment and detached amusement of one’s twenties, it’s Fred Thomas. Changer came at me in very much the same way that first sentence…
MAITA — Waterbearer
You can tell a lot about a person by the friends they keep. In this case, when M Lockwood Porter tipped me off to Maita, I knew I’d fall in love with her music right away. Maita’s one of those…
Mouths of Babes — Brighter in the Dark
This album deserves a full review but I think it’s worth sharing my initial reaction: So that’s Brighter in the Dark in a nutshell but here’s some more context. Mouths of Babes is a queer folk supergroup (super-duo?) comprised of…
Kim Nall and the Fringe — Lay Your Vision Down
I was immediately struck by Texas singer Kim Nall’s silver tongue and barbed pen. Nall borrows the title of her band’s debut album from an Allen Ginsburg poem, but Lay Your Vision Down is as earthy as they come. Nall…