Category: What We’re Into – Recent Interest
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NEW RELEASES, 10/18: HIGHWOMEN vinyl is here, CODY JINKS (again), SUFJAN STEVENS, some killer JASON ISBELL reissues, MARVIN GAYE LIVE, and much more!
The overarching theme of The Wanting is Cody’s personal struggles with inner demons and the rigors of stardom. Isn’t it refreshing when so much of modern country involves braggadocios self-aggrandization that Cody Jinks is willing to speak unflinchingly about his fears and vulnerabilities?
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NEW RELEASES, 10/11: BIG THIEF, CODY JINKS, DAVID GRISMAN, TRIGGER HIPPY, KIEFER & more!
Two Hands is a showcase for all of Big Thief’s instruments, recorded raw and closeup. But Lenker’s undecorated voice is the most arresting of them all as it swoops from whisper to cry. On the writhing lead single Not, she sings each bruised word with real pain on the line “It’s not the hunger revealing…
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NEW RELEASES, 10/4: We’ve got WILCO, THE AVETT BROTHERS, ANGEL OLSEN, NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALLSTARS & some sweet BEASTIE BOYS reissues!
Those who know Olsen from the stripped-down intimacy of Burn Your Fire For No Witness may be startled by the near-Björkian-grandeur on display here — although her 2016 My Woman clearly showed an artist whose trajectory had yet to be fully measured. Here, songs alternate vast orchestral landscapes with similarly-cinematic band tracks,
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NEW RELEASES, 9/27: STURGILL SIMPSON, THE BEATLES, BILLY STRINGS, THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS, THE GRATEFUL DEAD & THE REPLACEMENTS!
Ever since Sturgill Simpson was anointed the second coming of Seventies country with his 2014 release, Metamodern Sounds in Country Music, the 41-year-old Kentucky Navy vet has spent the past half-decade making a show of his discomfort with any such label. Simpson followed up that career-making record with
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NEW RELEASES, 9/20: BRITTNEY HOWARD, HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER, CHASTITY BELT, MUDHONEY, NEAL FRANCIS, ANDREW COMBS & more!
Eleven albums in as many years suggest MC Taylor has no issues with writers’ block, that he must be in a constant state of productivity. Yet Terms of Surrender arrived not through clarity,
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NEW RELEASES, 9/13: STEREOLAB reissues, THE LUMINEERS, BELLE & SEBASTIAN, THE PIXIES, CHELSEA WOLFE, (SANDY) ALEX G, and more!
The groundbreaking indie-noise-experimental stalwarts Stereolab continue their reissue campaign with three of their prime-period albums. The wide-ranging, devilishly melodic Cobra & Phases Group Play Voltage In The Milky Night
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JOAN SHELLEY’s new album, “Like The River Loves The Sea,” is twelve songs of sorely needed soothing wisdom in a chaotic world.
Shelley likes to talk about how deeply rooted her music is in the lineage of Kentucky music — in the collision of traditions that came slowly into place in the American South, forming into new traditions of its own.
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THE 2019 GREENVILLE RECORD FAIR is on the way! Get ready to dive into the vinyl crates once more at the SEARS RECREATION CENTER @ McPherson Park on Saturday, Sept. 21st!
It’s ON: HORIZON RECORDS presents the 2019 RECORD FAIR on SATURDAY, SEPT. 21st from 10am-4pm at the Sears Recreation Center
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NEW RELEASES, 8/30: JOAN SHELLEY, BON IVER, BONNIE PRINCE BILLY & BRYCE DESSNER, THE SERATONES, LANA DEL REY, VELVET NEGRONI & more!
On “‘Neon Brown’, Velvet Negroni is a griot relaying the life and times of his own island – it’s a singular place, with the squeak and thrum of guitar strings looped over drum machine beats accented by steely marimbas, all creating a pocket for
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NEW RELEASES 8/16: THE HOLD STEADY, SLEATER-KINNEY, DREW HOLCOMB & NEIGHBORS, KING GIZZARD & LIZARD WIZARD, LILLIE MAE, OLD SALT UNION, SHURA, RIDE & more!
In WB Yeats’ most famous line, “things fall apart, the center cannot hold.” Things were pretty bad when he wrote that in 1919, the first world war segueing smoothly into the Irish war of independence, but Sleater-Kinney twist the line into something even worse.