Music

“Hello, I’m Johnny Cash” so begins Bill Callahan’s Gold Record.

Kelly Lee Owns second album, Inner Song, is a sonic smorgasbord of delight.

Angel Olsen, electric guitar, and an occasional organ in a repurposed church turned recording studio on the coast in the Pacific Northwest. If all that sounds too good to be true, it is but it is.

Multidisciplinary artist and pianist Duval Timothy mixes up a world of influence into his new record Help, creating a stirring soul-fed soundworld that defies genrefication offering up the possibility to feel, heal, and learn.

Dublin-based 4-piece Lankum’s latest album The Livelong Day, released in October of 2019 on Rough Trade Records, is a powerful, stunning, and moving mix of the old and new.

I flipped over Fontaines D.C. debut release, Dogrel, released back in April of 2019. Their sophomore album, A Hero’s Death has arrived and while it’s different from Dogrel, why would it be the same?, it’s intense, a bit slower, somber, and oh-so-deep.

Perhaps more than any other record so far this year, Waxahatchee’s Saint Cloud has taken up permanent residence in my mind’s ear.

She had me at Healing Is A Miracle.

There are times when I find myself listening to and silently singing a new album over and over and the more I do, the deeper and richer it gets (much to my delight). This is exactly the case with Phoebe Bridgers sophomore record, Punisher.