Kathleen Edwards released her fourth album Voyageur (co-produced with Justin Vernon) over a year ago but I only recently discovered it.
All the songs on Voyageur are really great, solid songs. It’s not often that I come across an entire album (from an artist I’ve never heard of before) that is surprisingly strong from start to finish. Listen to a couple tracks below:
“Chameleon Comedian”:
“Sidecar”:
Live/acoustic:
New music from Shout Out Louds is really strong. Their new album Optica comes out at the end of February.
The chorus of “Walking In Your Footsteps” almost sounds like Morrissey singing, right?
Jeremy Sparrow (aka Danish songwriter Lasse Smed) recently released The Go-Getters, a seven song EP filled with some amazing music.
The overall sound is guitar-driven, jangle pop. People who love music and adore the experience of being in a band will understand these songs.
All seven songs are really, really good. The EP tackles themes of youthful ambition, struggle, and it captures the feeling of trying to make music your life’s work.
Standout tracks are “Q&A With My Dad” (with the line “the only thing that pushes me to try hard is the feeling I get when I pick up a guitar”), the catchy chorus of “The Trouble With Couples,” and the falsetto hook of “I Go To Pieces.”
Title track “The Go-Getters” is my favorite song on the EP. It’s about being in a band that breaks up…”Through a whirlwind of crushed dreams, I really believed in our sound, ’cause our songs made sense to me, you guys completed me, and when we performed I felt free.”
Hopefully Lasse brings Jeremy Sparrow to America sometime this year! You can listen to the EP below:
Magneta Lane is back with some great new music — a 4-song EP called Witchrock.
Lexi Valentine shared with After The Show a behind the scenes/songwriter’s perspective look at the upcoming EP.
People in Toronto – you can go to the EP release show (at The Rivoli) on February 14th. More info. at MagnetaLane.com
1. “Burn”
Lexi: It was the first song that was written for Witchrock. I wanted to lyrically write something that purged what was going on in our lives at the time. We had been through a lot and I wanted to write something that for us would make us feel better and stronger. I never like to victimize myself and I wasn’t going to start doing it now.
There goes that saying that ‘success is the best form of revenge’ and leaving those things behind that hold you back, hurt you, and limit your growth as a human being. In the most candid sense, we found strength in the idea of just burning it all down.
2. “Good For”
Lexi: The song was about what your mind goes through when you feel you just want to give up at times – we are all human, it happens. Sometimes there’s that voice in your head that’s giving you that tough love and telling you to get back up again but your mind can be your own worst enemy. Or it can be about a relationship where it’s become almost sadistic. I like to leave those interpretations up to the listeners.
3. “Leave The Light On ”
Lexi: The song is about being a woman in her 20s, exploring the idea that it can be really hard to settle down because you know that there’s a part of you that doesn’t want to be tamed in any way. She is fighting between her good vs evil sides. You can’t hate her because she is completely self-aware and apologetic.
4. “Lucky”
Lexi: “Lucky” was written about women, and how we are pitted against each other and how ridiculous that is. It’s about two types of women – the ones who go along with everything, don’t stand up for themselves and the ones who fight back, the ones who never gave in. And how in the end nothing is worth compromising your own human dignity for – whether it’s another person or group of people, or an idea.
For me it has always been important that we stay true to ourselves. It’s important to have integrity in this world.
Or it can be about a very horrible love triangle. Haha!
After The Show: “Lucky” is the catchiest, most classic Magneta Lane-sounding. And the background vocals in the chorus of “Good For” are perfect.
Just announced! The Governors Ball 2013 line-up is here.
Highlights of the June 7, 8, and 9th 2013 festival include Best Coast, Haim, Kings of Leon, The Avett Brothers, Grizzly Bear, The Lumineers, Beach House, and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros.
Full line-up:
Tennis is a husband/wife duo originally from Denver.
Check out their song “Deep in the Woods”:
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