Countrypolitan sure feels like it was tailor-made for me. Mink’s Miracle Medicine blends ’90s jangle rock with country and pop to deliver the most delicious melancholy bites. “Why Does Everyone?” captures what I imagine small-own ennui to feel like. (Though…
Alex Culbreth’s last album, Heart in a Mason Jar, was released in 2013 which, for me, is one apartment and almost all of my girlfriends ago. Like myself, Culbreth’s narrators aren’t necessarily less of a mess than they were three…
This song came to me a while ago. Chris Hickey’s “Langston Hughes” is a mesmerizing, semi-spoken word piece about how we are all united by art and the universality of the human experience. Plus, Hickey gets extra points for being…
Is it gauche to plug your own music on your own music blog? If it’s wrong then I won’t mention this again except for the “About Me” page. While I don’t think any of these songs particularly sound like my…
I wrote about Joplin Rice’s Low Hum a few months ago, but Rice edged in another 2015 release at almost the last second. Rice has melancholy down to a fine art. Where Low Hum saw Rice alone in his bedroom…