“Wayfinder” is the new album by singer-songwriter Taylor Vick, her fourth as Boy Scouts. You should listen to this if you like Andy Shauf. You should still listen to this if you don’t know who Andy Shauf is (really? There’s a song from his new record in this playlist, too).
Laura Marling and Mike Lindsay’s second album as LUMP is our recommendation of the week. It can be easy to dismiss these songs as scraps from whatever doesn’t find their way into Marling’s “main” albums. But those ideas, coupled with Lindsay’s marvellous synth work, come to have a life of their own here, and “Animal” has some of the best tracks we’ve heard from both musicians in a while.
Highlight: Joe Purdy’s Who Will Be Next
Our favorite songwriter from this newborn decade is preparing the release of her sophomore LP, The Stand-In, coming up next 25th February on Names Records. I wish I lived in a world where Caitlin Rose would put out a new song every single day. Today’s one of those days worth living. Listen to the upbeat-yet-melancholic “No One To Call” above and watch out for the track listing of the new album below, which includes a Felice Brothers cover and a collaboration between her and The Jayhawks’ Gary Louis in two of the songs. Best album of 2013 and I even haven’t listened to it yet.
DSS
Nashville, TN.
My favorite country girl just did this awesome version of “Piledriver Waltz”, a song that was written especially to your favorite movie of 2010, Submarine. Alex Turner thought of this mellow-simonandgarfunkelesque-polaroid ballad would fit perfectly into the movie, and I guess it did. But Caitlin just took it to another level. Taste it. Everything is better with a slide-guitar.
JFC