10-28-2021 alter:MiX # 33 alter tracks in PRSNT_PRFCT_MiX [2019-2021] # Sharon Van Etten, Field Music, Oceanator, Sue Foley, Routine, Juliana Hatfield, G. Love & Special Sauce, Pearl Charles, Still Corners, Little Barrie, Malcolm Catto, Circles Around the Sun
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A singer of distinct, controlled passion, Sharon Van Etten carved out a loyal audience with her hushed, intense albums... A dedicated choir student during her childhood, Van Etten studied clarinet, violin, and piano before moving on to guitar. She began writing songs in high school and sang in a choir group, the Madrigals. She credits her choral experiences as indispensable in learning to musically notate, as well as to sing harmonies.
No One's Easy to Love 4:38
Memorial Day 4:27
Malibu 3:23
from Remind Me Tomorrow 2019
For a decade, Sharon Van Etten specialized in understatement. From her 2009 debut Because I Was in Love through 2014's Are We There, she mined the tension generated by murmuring instrumentation clashing with her passionate delivery, a balance that proved quietly compelling. Van Etten maintains that sense of drama on Remind Me Tomorrow, her fifth full-length album, but she's radically shifted her presentation. Working with producer John Congleton, she's expanded her sonic palette, incorporating vintage synthesizers and drum loops while occasionally cranking up her amplifiers. Some of the sounds are conscious throwbacks, but they don't play like retro nostalgia, not in the context of Remind Me Tomorrow, which juxtaposes fearless aural adventure with keenly observed observations of easing into a satisfied life. ..
Singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Michael Nau crafts reflective indie rock tinged with folk, psychedelic, and vintage pop influences. He's known for leading the like-minded projects Page France and Cotton Jones from the mid-2000s to the early 2010s before beginning to record under his own name in 2016.
Look Into Dance 5:22
Hoops 4:27
Grow My Wave 3:38
from Less Ready to Go 2019
Still a collaborative effort, and even more bustling than 2018's Michael Nau & the Mighty Thread in terms of arrangements, Less Ready to Go is Michael Nau's fourth album under his own name. Recorded at a studio in Joshua Tree, it was produced by Dr. Dog's Scott McMicken. As for its particularly colorful sound, Nau has explained that each song was recorded live with guests, who would then "switch instruments and do a live overdub on top." Alongside extra touches and sound effects, the results are often wonky and woozy on an album whose otherworldly quality extends to reaching back to the '60 and '70s for R&B, pop, and psychedelic influences. Rather than ever playing like a tribute, these elements seep into Nau's dreamy songs...
Hailing from Sunderland, England, indie/art rockers Field Music emerged in the middle part of the 2000s with a distinctive blend of smartly crafted pop hooks and an ambitious nature that pulled from a variety of rock subgenres. Helmed by brothers Peter and David Brewis, the group earned critical acclaim and a devout fan base...
Field Music
Coffee or Wine 3:03
A Shot To The Arm 2:32
Only In a Man's World 2:46
from Making a New World 2020
...Their distinctive brand of indie pop has been constantly refined over the years as they smartly thread between bits of clever guitar rock, synth pop, soul, disco, and chamber pop, this time adding in some light prog-rock sophistication and the sort of aerodynamic new wave that harkens back to Thomas Dolby's early work. Like each of their previous releases, Making a New World is an ambitious, original, and exquisitely crafted work, full of rich details and compelling songs that translate the past into modern new shapes.
The stage moniker of Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Elise Okusami, Oceanator emerged in 2016 with a sound that combines heavy grunge, fuzzed-out indie rock, and deeply personal lyrics with synth pop-laced, incisive pop hooks.
Goodbye, Goodnight 4:03
Hide Away 6:11
Walk with You 4:20
from Things I Never Said 2021
The debut full-length effort from Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Elise Okusami, who operates under the moniker Oceanator, Things I Never Said is a delightfully understated grunge-pop paean to the disillusionment of early adulthood. Okusami is a nimble pop architect who knows how to bait a hook, and her songs, which marry the riot grrrl ethos of Sleater-Kinney with the neatly wrapped emo-pop earworms of Jimmy Eat World, frequently take abrupt instrumental detours that lead the listener into new sonic headwaters...
Sue Foley is a Canadian guitarist, singer, songwriter and bandleader based in Austin, Texas. Her trademark instrument is a pink paisley Fender Telecaster. She signed with Antone's Records for her 1992 acclaimed debut album Young Girl Blues, and followed with Without a Warning a year later. Foley's wicked lead guitar made her a rarity among blueswomen at the time...
Pinky's Blues 4:13
Say It's Not So 4:43
Stop These Teardrops 3:24
from Pinky's Blues 2021
Anyone who has spent time listening to Canada-born, Austin-based guitar slinger Sue Foley knows "Pinky" is her signature paisley-print pink Fender Telecaster. Pinky's Blues is her second offering for Stony Plain. Foley and her band -- bassist Jon Penner, drummer Chris Layton (of Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble fame), and Hammond B-3 organist, producer Mike Flanigin -- got together with engineer Chris Bell over three days in a San Marcos, Texas studio and cut these 12 tracks live on the floor. Foley's focus is the Texas blues and the artists who embody them in a set of covers and originals. She captures the Lone Star blues styles with raw energy, passion, and stellar musicianship.
Indie rock duo Routine consists of Jay Som's Melina Duterte and Chastity Belt bassist Annie Truscott, who acts as singer and main songwriter. They debuted the project's hazy guitar textures and languorous ruminations on the EP And Other Things in 2020...
Indie rock duo Routine consists of Jay Som's Melina Duterte and Chastity Belt bassist Annie Truscott, who acts as singer and main songwriter. They debuted the project's hazy guitar textures and languorous ruminations on the EP And Other Things in 2020...
Cady Road 3:10
And Other Things 3:42
from And Other Things 2020
Annie Truscott, bassist for Chastity Belt, and her partner, Melina Duterte, better known as Jay Som, were staying in Joshua Tree during a pandemic lockdown when they started their own music collaboration. Dubbing themselves Routine, the resulting five-song EP And Other Things features Truscott's songs and lead vocals with Duterte acting as secondary accompanist in a reversal of their roles with their main gigs. Duterte also lent her production and recording skills to the project. Bearing some resemblance to the dreamy, reflective nature of both Chastity Belt and Jay Som, without reproducing them, Routine's sound is more languid and lost in thought, with consistently sauntering tempos and distracted deliveries throughout...
Juliana Hatfield is one of the great survivors of the alternative rock era, a singer/songwriter who built a diverse, adventurous discography through steady, consistent work. She began her career in the late 1980s as the lead singer of Blake Babies, a college-rock trio from Boston who counted Pixies, Throwing Muses, and Lemonheads among their peers. Hatfield went solo in 1992, releasing her debut Hey Babe just as alternative rock became a commercial force...
Every Breath You Take 4:33
Roxanne 3:43
Murder by Numbers 2:32
from Juliana Hatfield Sings the Police 2019
Arriving swiftly after 2018's Juliana Hatfield Sings Olivia Newton-John, 2019's Juliana Hatfield Sings the Police amounts to the second chapter in a musical autobiography for the rocker. If Olivia Newton-John amounted to Hatfield's first musical love, the Police are the pivotal band of her teens, a group that accelerated her interest in rock & roll. Appropriately, Juliana Hatfield Sings the Police isn't as sweet or dreamy as Juliana Hatfield Sings Olivia Newton-John. Hatfield emphasizes the group's connection to punk and New Wave, both through song selection and arrangement...
G. Love & Special Sauce are a Philadelphia-based trio whose laid-back, sloppy blues sound is quite unique, as it encompasses the sound/production of classic R&B and recent rap artists (the Beastie Boys, in particular). The group -- G. Love (born Garrett Dutton) on guitar/vocals/harmonica, Jeff Clemens on drums, and Jim Prescott on upright bass -- released their self-titled debut in 1994 on OKeh/Epic..
G. Love & Special Sauce
The Juice (feat. Marcus King) 3:07
Go Crazy (feat. Keb' Mo') 3:40
Fix Your Face 3:15
from The Juice 2020
Now that they're over a quarter-century into their career, it's time to come to terms with a simple fact: G. Love & Special Sauce are no longer youthful upstarts, they're veterans. Fittingly, their 2020 album The Juice is the kind of record that could only be made by musicians who've been around the block a time or two. It's not that The Juice is the work of untrammeled virtuosos -- it is most decidedly a vibe record -- but rather that it's an album that's casually confident that also happens to have an offhand sense of community. At its core, The Juice derives from a series of Nashville sessions held with Keb' Mo', who is credited as a co-producer and appears on a fair chunk of the album...
Singer/songwriter Pearl Charles has a knack for writing melodic, low-key indie pop with a jangling country tone. After coming up through the Los Angeles lo-fi and garage scenes, she made her full-length debut in 2018 with Sleepless Dreamer, a finely crafted slice of warm country-pop. She followed it up three years later with Magic Mirror...
Imposter 3:25
Magic Mirror 2:58
Sweet Sunshine Wine 4:10
from Magic Mirror 2021
In a pleasing tangle of sun-warmed melodies and 1970s influences, Pearl Charles strikes a confident, if laid-back tone on Magic Mirror, her sophomore album. The Los Angeles native has been bubbling under the radar for nearly a decade, trying her hand in a variety of indie subsets from lo-fi Americana to garage and psychedelia before landing on a more polished amalgam of vintage-flavored country-pop and West Coast soft rock. Her 2018 debut, Sleepless Dreamer, showed plenty of promise and laid the framework for the more fully realized sound she achieves here... The production and arrangements throughout are impeccable, warm, and well-suited to the kind of thoughtful, low-key songwriting at which Charles excels. Neither basking in its vintage flavor nor overplaying its strengths, Magic Mirror is the kind of subtle record that reveals its pleasures through repeated listens. Even Charles' voice is a comfort; after a decade of mainstream mumblers and overwrought affectations, her enunciated vocal style brings a conversational tone to the songs...
United by Tessa Murray's delicate vocals and their love of otherworldly atmospheres, Still Corners' music is otherwise in constant motion. .. Still Corners formed shortly after Hughes, a native of Austin, Texas, met Murray by chance at a London train station. Taking their name from a phrase in Robert Frost's poem "New Hampshire," they soon began making music together...
The Last Exit 4:41
A Kiss Before Dying 2:45
It's Voodoo 4:44
from The Last Exit 2021
More than a decade after they formed, Still Corners and their music remain in constant motion. Over the years, Greg Hughes and Tessa Murray have relocated from London to the English seaside to Texas' Hill Country, and their sound has shifted with every move. On The Last Exit, however, there's a slightly shorter distance between where they've been and where they are. They embellish on the sunbaked dream pop they introduced on Slow Air... Even if The Last Exit is sometimes a little too wispy, it's still a fitting soundtrack for getting lost on the open road.
Little Barrie are a London-based trio led by ace guitarist Barrie Cadogan, whose sound is an exciting blend of hard rock, blues, soul, and funk that calls to mind classic bands of the '60s like Traffic and Cream... By the time of 2020's Quatermass Seven, the band had staked out a place all their own sonically and Cadogan was firmly entrenched on the short list of best guitarists of his era...
Rest In Blue 4:20
Repeater #2 4:02
After After 8:10
from Quatermass Seven 2020
After the release of their 2017 album Death Express, Little Barrie suffered the tragic loss of drummer Virgil Howe, and the remaining two members of the group, guitarist Barrie Cadogan and bassist Lewis Wharton, took some time deciding whether they wanted to keep the band going. When they did choose to make more music together, they called in drummer Malcom Catto of the London jazz group Heliocentrics. The trio began jamming in the drummer's basement studio, liked what they came up with, and turned their ideas into a set of songs. Recorded simply on vintage equipment, the seven-song Quatermass Seven album crackles with energy and shines like a gritty diamond as the three players delve deeply into grooves so deep they feel bottomless... It's a heady mix of vintage sounds, just like the band usually put on tape, but a little freer and tougher thanks to Catto's jazz background, the urgency of Cadogan's singing and playing, and the sense that the emotional stakes are a little higher...
Circles Around the Sun is a contemporary instrumental rock band that formed with the specific purpose of creating intermission music for Fare Thee Well, a series of reunion concerts played by the surviving members of the Grateful Dead during their 2015 tour. Those shows celebrated the band's 50th anniversary and served as their official send-off, while Circles Around the Sun was designed to reflect the Dead's spacy and grooving overall feel...
When I Was at Peace 5:19
Added Addition 5:43
from Meets Joe Russo 2019
Circles Around the Sun (CATS) announced their completed collaboration with drummer Joe Russo in July of 2019. Guitarist Neal Casal spoke of the band's excitement about the completely improvised session recorded at the drummer's Brooklyn studio. The band's and Russo's paths had been entwined for a decade via their work with various Grateful Dead side projects (Phil 'n' Friends, Further, etc.) and Cass McCombs. On August 26, three weeks after CATS had completed sessions for a third album, Casal took his own life.
Meets Joe Russo is an informal jam that is startling for its sheer musicality. Cut live from the floor in a single day, it showcases just how intuitive the interplay was between Casal, keyboardist Adam MacDougall, bassist Dan Horne, and drummer Mark Levy. The addition of Russo's drumming only adds to that depth of field...
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