review – bolachas.org

Bolachas has been on and off the radar for the last couple of months due to countless factors. That’s a fact. But then again, sometimes our mailbox is hit by sentences like Do brief bursts of melodic lo-fi noise excite you? 90’s tape-hiss indie a la Guided By Voices and Shrimper Records? and that’s the moment we realize we gotta do something.

Those words equal Graham Repulski. The mysterious fuzzy rock act from Weehawken, NJ has a new 7" coming out on Big School Records and they were kind enough to give away a couple of mp3s off it (“Mommy’s Dreaming” is the highlight here). Get your Archers of Loaf worn out shirt ready for this and give it a spin. You can pre-order the 7", out 13th December, on the Big School Records’ webstore. Here. Stream it on the widget below.

Download mp3: “Mommy’s Dreaming” // “Everyone Likes My Three Dollar Shirt”

That awkward moment when you’re listening to a great album and realize no label, big or small, bothered to release it. Canadian songwriter Jason Ogden did it all by himself – or perhaps he didn’t, as his project Penny Blacks eventually grew to be a full 7-piece band – and selfreleased his first LP, Harbour, without any help from the big ones. The result is a stellar folk-rock album from a group of musicians who clearly look like they’ve been doing this for a long time now; although they’ve been compared to The Dears or Decemberists in the past I would place them somewhere between Americana acts Richmond Fontaine and Centro-matic – Ogden’s vocals definitely sound like Will Johnson’s, which is one of the best compliments you can give to anyone who sings in a band like this. Listening to Harbour while working on a cafe (like me, as I write these words) could be your favorite thing to do on these cold Fall afternoons. You can do it below on their Bandcamp – and buy the digital for a tenner if you like it enough.