Stuff to listen to when your mind is warped enough (and your ear is muscled enough) to find neo-freakfolk with sweet guitar licks hugely enjoyable. Get a cold one, lay down, close your eyes, and enter the beehive’s spirit. You won’t get stung, we promise. Spirit of the Beehive’s record is pleasure percolated through aural honey, mind the cliché. And, just like honey (pun intended), it will age well.
Nadia Reid’s sophomore record, Preservation, is our album of the week for our 102th playlist. The New Zealander singer-songwriter will visit us soon – more on that later! – and her record’s been on repeat for weeks.
Bolachas Now Playing, 18/2017 (#102):
Wooden Wand – Mallow T’ward the River
Richard Dawson – Soldier
Nadia Reid – Preservation
Nadia Reid – The Arrow and the Aim
Julia Lucille – Plot of Ground
Girl Ray – Preacher
Waxahatchee – No Curse
Sarah Shook & the Disarmers – Heal Me
Girlpool – Powerplant
Cayetana – Certain for Miles
Pond – Sweep Me Off My Feet
Sevdaliza – Marilyn Monroe
The Magnetic Fields – ‘71: I Think I’ll Make Another World
The Deslondes – Hurricane Shakedown
Emperor X – Brown Recluse
The National – The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness
Cameron Avery – Disposable
Fleet Foxes – Fool’s Errand
Wilco – (What’s So Funny Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding?
Old 97’s – Those Were the Days
Bolachas Now Playing, 12/2017 (#96):
Rodney Crowell – Forty Miles From Nowhere
Whitney – Gonna Hurry (As Slow as I Can)
Emperor X – Schopenhauer in Berlin
Real Estate – Serve the Song
Matthew Logan Vasquez – Old Ways
Broken Social Scene – Halfway Home
Louise Burns – Downtown Lights
Mary Ocher – To the Light
Johnny Flynn – The Night My Piano Upped and Died
Jake Xerxes Fussell – St. Brendan’s Isle
Jake Xerxes Fussell – Bells of Rhymney
Sam Amidon – Juma Mountain
RF Shannon – In the Wilds of My Mind
Laura Marling – Wild Once
Joan Shelley – Where I’ll Find You
Fenne Lily – Top to Toe
Aldous Harding – Imagining My Man
Meg Duffy is also known as the bassist in Kevin Morby’s live band, but she’s making a name for herself as Hand Habits. Her first album for Woodsist is our album pick for this week.
Highlight of the week: Jess Williamson’s Heart Song