#alt-country

[haveyouheardthisband]

#alt-country #singer-songwriter #western #americana #folk punk #1990s #2000s #2010s #2020s #canada #poll #Spotify

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

Tracklist:

Absolutely Cuckoo • I Don't Believe in the Sun • All My Little Words • A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off • Reno Dakota • I Don't Want to Get Over You • Come Back From San Francisco • The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side • Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits • The Cactus Where Your Heart Should Be • I Think I Need a New Heart • The Book of Love • Fido, Your Leash Is Too Long • How Fucking Romantic • The One You Really Love • Punk Love • Parades Go By • Boa Constrictor • A Pretty Girl Is Like • My Sentimental Melody • Nothing Matters When We're Dancing • Sweet-Lovin' Man • The Things We Did and Didn't Do • Roses • Love is Like Jazz • When My Boy Walks Down the Street • Time Enough For Rocking When We're Old • Very Funny • Grand Canyon • No One Will Ever Love You • If You Don't Cry • You're My Only Home • (Crazy For You But) Not That Crazy • My Only Friend • Promises of Eternity • World Love • Washington, D.C. • Long-Forgotten Fairytale • Kiss Me Like You Mean It • Papa Was a Rodeo • Epitaph For My Heart • Asleep and Dreaming • The Sun Goes Down and the World Goes Dancing • The Way You Say Good-Night • Abigail, Belle of Kilronan • I Shatter • Underwear • It's a Crime • Busby Berkeley Dreams • I'm Sorry I Love You • Acoustic Guitar • The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure • Love in the Shadows • Bitter Tears • Wi' Nae Wee Bairn Ye'll Me Beget • Yeah! Oh, Yeah! • Experimental Music Love • Meaningless • Love is Like a Bottle of Gin • Queen of the Savages • Blue You • I Can't Touch You Anymore • Two Kinds of People • How to Say Goodbye • The Night You Can't Remember • For We Are the King of the Boudoir • Strange Eyes • Xylophone Track • Zebra

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#hyltta-polls #polls #artist: the magnetic fields #language: english #decade: 1990s #Indie Pop #Chamber Pop #Synthpop #Twee Pop #Indie Folk #Alt-Country #long post

[highway80stories]

The romance of Levi Hooper and Lucy Cooper was an unlikely union; absolutely, an attraction of opposites. They met while living across the street from one another in Jackson, Mississippi. Lucy was a hell-raising rebel and Levi was a church-going, salt-of-the-earth young man. Lucy was attracted to Levi mainly because he was nothing like the people she’d been involved with up to then, and Lucy had grown tired of her life and was ripe for a change. Levi was attracted to Lucy because, well, for one thing, she was a very sexy lady, but more importantly he intuitively felt that she wanted more out of life than her drinking, drugging and wild partying. Theirs was a true love which they both felt strongly, but a love that was destined to be cut off far too early, its potential left unfulfilled. © 2017 Frank David Leone, Jr./Highway 80 Music (ASCAP). The songs and stories on the Highway 80 Stories website are works of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.lyrics.

Listen/purchase: Levi and Lucy by Highway 80 Stories

#bandcamp #acoustic #mississippi #folk music #country music #southern fiction #literature #southern gothic #romance #indie-folk #alt-country #short stories #story songs

[nonesuchrecords]

Among the 70 Best Alt-Country Albums of All Time per Paste magazine are Hurray for the Riff Raff’s LIFE ON EARTH, Yola’s Walk Through Fire, Rhiannon Giddens’ Freedom Highway, k.d. lang’s Ingénue, Billy Bragg & Wilco's Mermaid Avenue, Carolina Chocolate Drops' Genuine Negro Jig, Emmylou Harris’s Wrecking Ball, and Wilco's Being There. You can see the full list here.

#alt-country #paste magazine #hurray for the riff raff #yola #rhiannon giddens #k.d. lang #billy bragg #wilco #carolina chocolate drops #genuine negro jig #emmylou harris #nonesuch #nonesuch records #americana music

[saisons-en-enfer]

Baby I wish I was dead

#SI playlist #mazzy star #hope sandoval #she hangs brightly #alt-country #dreampop #paisley underground

[acidtripper666]

me and who

#jason isbell #amanda shires #alt country #alternative country #alt-country #southern rock #music #jason isbell and the 400 unit

[asailorsdrunkeneulogy]

Tyler Childers || In Your Love

#tyler childers #in your love #music #song #music video #official video #new music #folk #alt-country #Americana #Youtube

[reckonslepoisson]

Pony (2019), Bronco (2022), Orville Peck

Ian Curtis and Elvis Presley become one as a gay cowboy; sure, Orville Peck has a schtick, but it can be a rather good one. Pony’s one-dimensionality was fine, entertaining even, ballasted by solid, big, dramatic tunes. Bronco not so much, Peck showing that without a good hook or melody, his lyricism, singing and songwriting aren’t quite strong enough to carry the rest.

Pick(s): ‘Dead of Night’, ‘C’mon Baby, Cry’

#orville peck #pony #bronco #country #alt-country #singer-songwriter #americana #2019 #2022 #music #review #music review

[thegloriaswitch]

four all-new, all-electric versions of songs from my acoustic LP The Color of Honey. how rad is that?? turn it up and FIND OUT

#the gloria switch #bandcamp #indie music #diy #electric guitar #alt-country

[dustedmagazine]

Waxahatchee — Tigers Blood (Anti)

In the press interviews leading up to the release of Tiger’s Blood, Katie Crutchfield’s latest for Anti under the artist name Waxahatchee, the artist made it clear that she wanted to step away from the tortured artist model of creation and reception. The songs and themes explored move further away from the edginess of Out in the Storm, a cathartic but harrowing effort from 2017. In this sense, it follows the thread of her 2020 recording Saint Cloud. As on that album, Brad Cook produces, at Sonic Ranch Studios in Texas. The sound blooms; Tiger’s Blood is the most polished of Crutchfield’s albums to date.

An excellent group of supporting musicians are on hand. The guitarist MJ Lenderman navigates the delicate balance of acoustic and electric instruments with a clean electric sound, and economic, skilful solos. The songs are further fleshed out by banjoist Phil Cook, Brad’s brother, and drummer Spencer Tweedy.

Crutchfield has a glorious voice that has only improved with experience. When I reviewed Plains, her duo project with Jess Williamson, for Dusted, I remarked that, “Crutchfield and Williamson singing together create magic.” Magic is created by voices here too. There are few songs where the lead vocal isn’t accompanied by backing vocals: overdubs of Crutchfield and help from her collaborators. A song like “Evil Spawn” has an excellent hook, but the incorporation of multiple background singers really makes its arrangement attractive. “3 Sisters,” appropriately, over the course of the song builds to 3-part harmony. The title track and album closer gets help from a chorus of enthusiastic voices.

Songs like “Ice Cold” and “Bored” bring the music closer to the rock end of the country music spectrum, a popular place currently to reside. Crutchfield’s attachment to roots music is also on display, with “Right Back at It” spotlighting Phil Cook and pedal steel adorning “Crimes of the Heart.”

True to Crutchfield’s word, Tiger’s Blood is an album that avoids bathos. That doesn’t mean that strong emotions are absent. In “Burns Out at Midnight,” she confronts angry impulses. “365,” one of the album’s singles,  is about a toxic relationship. She sings,”I catch your poison arrow, I catch your same disease, Bowing like a weeping willow, Buckling at the knees, Begging you please.” “Crime of the Heart,” about another devolving relationship, rhymes the title with,”you’ll rip yourself apart.” The music denies any sense of wallowing, even sounds upbeat, suggesting that this relationship may be in the rearview mirror soon enough.

Tiger’s Blood doesn’t have a weak cut on it. One imagines it will be in heavy rotation for many long after its release.

Christian Carey

#waxahatchee #tigers blood #anti- #christian carey #albumreview #dusted magazine #katie crutchfield #MJ lender #indie #alt-country

[soundgrammar]

Listen/purchase: It All Matters by Bill Scorzari

#alt-country #singer-songwriter #Bill Scorzazi #Bandcamp #music

[haveyouheardthisband]

#Alt-Country #Indie Folk #Folk Rock #Contemporary Folk #2010s #USA #poll

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

Tracklist:

Dead of Night • Winds Change • Turn to Hate • Buffalo Run • Queen of the Rodeo • Kansas (Remembers Me Now) • Old River • Big Sky • Roses Are Falling • Take You Back (The Iron Hoof Cattle Call) • Hope to Die • Nothing Fades Like the Light

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#hyltta-polls #polls #artist: orville peck #language: english #decade: 2010s #Alt-Country #Singer-Songwriter #Gothic Country #Outlaw Country #Americana

[luuurien]

Indigo De Souza - All of This Will End

(Indie Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Indie Pop)

With exceptionally raw songwriting packing an incredible amount of emotion, Indigo De Souza’s third album confronts toxic relationships and traumatic scars from her youth in a more direct fashion than ever before. Now knowing how she wants to be loved and refusing to let negative emotions sit inside her, All of This Will End’s explosive songcraft makes her music hit harder than ever.

☆☆☆☆☆

There’s a moment in All of This Will End where the power of Indigo De Souza’s music is more immediate than ever before. As the plush electronic drums and jangly guitars start up in The Water, you can feel the perspective shift to a snapshot of her past, comforting but with an awareness of being back in a more turbulent point in her life. It’s an effortlessly beautiful song, one that basks in the warmth of childhood innocence in an album where anger and desire tend to rule, and it’s this balance of resignation and rage Indigo De Souza’s third album perfects. Where her debut caught her in the midst of overwhelming darkness, and Any Shape You Take chronicled self-discovery and the rush of feeling every emotion that comes your way, All of This Will End seeks growth through purging all the feelings she’s been holding in, acidic indie rock where quick flashes of fury dance around intimate scenes of De Souza’s youth. It’s a fabulously dynamic album where De Souza’s exceptionally-pared down songwriting packs an incredible amount of emotion, committed performance and a new production team letting her music bounce between styles without having to bend her songwriting to it - the sound of these songs aims to compliment her earnest songwriting rather than force it to fit in a box. As quickly as the album comes to a close, every feeling of hers has been fully transferred to you.

With a new sound after the departure of Any Shape You Take bandmates Owen Stone and MJ Lenderman- an event that entirely shook De Souza after starting to feel that those people were the only people for {her}” - All of This Will End lovingly embraces the gauzy dance-pop and country twang pieces of Any Shape You Take hinted at never fully explored. Compare the album’s first two singles, Younger & Dumber and Smog, and you can find the intersection where the album’s two thematic paths cross. The former is a haunting country ballad built on a foundation of strummed acoustic guitar and warm piano, a direct conversation between De Souza and her younger self, how the abuse she endured in the past so deeply changed her into who she is today even if she knows she deserved none of it (“You came to hurt me in all the right places / Made me somebody / …I didn’t know better”). Smog exists back in that past, De Souza protected by moonlight as she escapes the pressures around her through carefree synthpop (“I want to face it head-on / But it’s so easy to turn it away / …I don’t know how to turn around if I’m not ready”). The rest of the songs fit largely into those two categories with De Souza’s perspectives on her past and present self always in the mix, the new doors opened up for her music making each one feel special and cared for, be it the heavy riffage and headphone-crushing percussion that manifests feelings of overwhelming insecurity in early highlight Wasting Your Time or the title track’s breezy indie rock where not having any answers allows her to love and take care of herself regardless of where she’s struggling (“There’s only love / There’s only moving through and trying your best / Sometimes it’s not enough / Who gives a fuck, all of this will end”); by providing many iterations of herself in All of This Will End, she makes an immensely comforting album in its ability to own all its emotions, letting you into her world and see her forgive and heal from her past without letting those who hurt her escape from accountability.

Her straightforward emotional storytelling works as well on short tracks as much as it does on the album’s two slow-burns, Not My Body and Younger & Dumber. Sequencing-wise, they take up an eight minute stretch at the album’s end that initially feels at odds with the brisk pace and urgent feel of the previous songs, still dealing with heavy emotion but choosing to wade in them, slow and reflective in ways her music rarely has been up to this point. De Souza’s songs have always been deeply attuned to her emotional states both euphoric and miserable, but there’s something fresh and cutting about the way she leans into the crushing midsection of Not My Body, letting the fourth between the two notes she sings in the first three lines of the final verse ascend quickly before slowly sliding down the final half of each line, her desperation to escape the physical limitations of her body coming to its breaking point before the last half of the song smoothly drifts out into a smoky alt-country sunset. These two extended moments of songcraft give even greater meaning to the songs before them: the panic attack at the center of Parking Lot is only two and a half minutes and Always’ gutting attempt to make sense of her father’s extended absence in her childhood are that much more important when it’s clear just how present and heavy those feelings are within her in each. All of This Will End doesn’t mind lingering, but it’s De Souza’s choosing of when to sit with feelings and when to let them pour out that the album earns such a beautiful sense of wholeness, content with not having a final answer as long as she’s moving forward into a better future.

Like her previous albums, All of This Will End deals with De Souza’s internal world and how devoting yourself to love both breaks and reconstructs you, but what has changed is how her existential dread now gives her a reason to go as big as possible, musical colors more vivid than ever and writing with a desire to do nothing but say exactly how she feels with nothing in between you and her. Her ease at describing feelings so simply without losing an edge to her writing is second to none, and her passionate performances that go from elated to terrified in the blink of an eye keep you right next to her throughout every moment. The core of De Souza’s music is in honesty and expressing every feeling without fear, and All of This Will End’s willingness to let every version of De Souza exist together gives every song the opportunity to pull you into her world for a bit, admire the beauty of it all, and move forward into the future alongside her. It may be short, but that makes cherishing every second that much more valuable.

#indigo de souza #all of this will end #saddle creek #alt-country #indie pop #indie rock #singer/songwriter #synthpop #2023 #10/10 #album review #album reviews #new music #music review #2023 music #luuurien

[dougwallen]

Caitlin Harnett & The Pony Boys review for The Weekend Australian

#Caitlin Harnett & The Pony Boys #The Weekend Australian #review #album review #australia #music review #music #Sydney #country #alt-country

[saisons-en-enfer]

Lord, help me now because I'm drowning My boat don't know the way to shore

#favourite songs #mark lanegan #gothic country #straight songs of sorrow #alt-country #singer-songwriter #Bandcamp