15.11.2025-EMILY WELLS This World Is Too___For You (Thesis And Instinct,2019)

 

INDIE ROCK

   Emily Wells makes a dramatic statement on This World is Too___For You. The musician, composer, and producer has clearly hit her stride on her sixth release, a masterful, epic collection of songs. A striking blend of orchestral and goth music, this album is a slow-burner that is equal parts heart wrenching, sexy, and meditative. Wells follows in the footsteps of legends like Björk and Annie Lennox with ethereal, minimalist tracks including “Remind Me To Remember” and the classically tinged “Stay Up.” Album standout “Come On Doom, Let’s Party” shows Wells at her best—haunting, emotional, and suspenseful.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/jwvnuo

12.11.2025-FIRST AID KIT The Lion's Roar (Redeye,2012)

 

INDIE FOLK

   Country music has become a free-trade zone: Witness “Emmylou,” a love song about Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris, sung by two Swedes with old-school sibling-act harmonies. Johanna and Klara Söderberg are indie rockers at heart: They recorded this set in Omaha with Bright Eyes’ Mike Mogis; Conor Oberst does his own Gram Parsons turn on “King of the World.” The songs shuffle styles, but the voices transcend genre distinctions.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/2wkjdk

10.11.2025-JANE WEAVER Love In Constant Spectacle (Fire,2024)

 

INDIE FOLK

   Love in Constant Spectacle features all of Weaver's strengths and none of her (very few) weaknesses. There's a kind of magical play here that conceals the emotional weight the album continuously heaves skyward, any evidence of the effort smoothed out in the subtitles.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/02jjvw

07.11.2025-HULDA HUIMA Ilma (Helmi Levyt,2021)

 

INDIE FOLK

   Hulda Huima has completed her best album, which is called “Ilma”. It is a follow-up to the album “Maa” released in 2019. The album crystallizes all of Hulda Huima’s best aspects: simply gorgeous folk rock songs, beautiful melancholy, uncomplicated expression, poetic stories about nature and the rough and stylish playing of the band Hitaat sekunnit. A new angle is brought to the album by Samuli Tanner’s ingenious production, which combines electronic soundscapes with organic band sound. 

https://www.sendspace.com/file/o6rf1s

05.11.2025-MOUNTAIN MAN Magic Ship (Bella Union,2018)

 

INDIE FOLK

   It has been eight years since Mountain Man released their debut LP Made the Harbor — a timeless barebones record — and this sophomore album is of the same vein. The majority of the songs are sung a cappella, and what little instrumentation is present is softly played on acoustic guitar. In either case, listeners are able to revel in the intricacies of Mountain Man's entwined voices. On "AGT," for example, Meath, Sauser-Monnig and Sarlé tumble easily up and down the hills and valleys of their melody, while later, the trio's hushed humming in "Whale Song" feels like it's a mimicry of a whale's low frequency vocalizations.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/myvpax

03.11.2025-ASOBI SEKSU Fluorescence (Polyvinyl,2011)

 

SHOEGAZE

   Asobi Seksu are consis-tently literal with their album titles. For 2009's Hush, the duo of James Hanna and Yuki Chikudate toned down the guitar overdrive to allow their crystalline songcraft to glimmer. And Fluorescence, their fourth studio album, has an overwhelming brightness -- neon synth squiggles illuminate the shoegaze surge of "Counterglow," while epic centerpiece "Leave the Drummer Out There" is spotlighted by said instrument's crisp martial beat. But amid the air-raid guitars of the anthemic "Trails," Chikudate finds space to soar from a hushed coo to an outright howl: "Please, don't leave me here with nothing."

https://www.sendspace.com/file/ab6q4r

01.11.2025-SUSANNE SUNDFOR The Silicone Veil (EMI,2012)

 

FOLKTRONICA

   Carefully orchestrated, beautiful sung, and imaginatively written; I hadn't even heard the name Susanne Sundfør a week before I first heard this album, and yet The Silicone Veil falls so comfortably into my own tastes that I feel as if I've known about her for years. With a little more exposure, she has the potential to be a star.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/1m3fkp