What a surprise. There’s a new Daniel Romano album and it’s featured here. “Cobra Poems” is another stellar collection of some of the best songwriting in today’s rock music, and it doesn’t seem like Romano’s Outfit will stop steamrolling any soon.
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Mega Bog’s new record is our album of the week. If you know her work – we were all over her previous album, “Dolphine”, back in 2019 – you know exactly what to expect; if not, well, if you’re into exquisite songwriting (think Cate Le Bon or Helena Deland), this might just be your jam.
Sven Wunder’s third album in three years is out now on Mr Bongo. After exploring 70s Anatolian rock and Japanese min’yō in his last two fusion jazzy tomes, “Natura Morta” draws from still life paintings and its relationship with nature.
In a surprising contender for first new exceptional album of the year, James Yorkston teams up with Swedish folk-rock-ish outfit The Second Hand Orchestra to deliver “The Wide, Wide River”, a “krautfolk” machine that got us hooked at first listen.
Bolachas Now Playing, a new music Spotify playlist updated every Tuesday.
Current 93’s new album “The Light Is Leaving Us All” is probably David Tibet’s best work since 2006’s “Black Ships Ate the Sky”. Yes, there’s no modern cowboy or cowgirl in the cover this week. Deal with it. But there’s one hour and a half of new music by Ty Segall, Pip Blom, The Black Lillies, Night Shop, The Skiffle Players, Beirut, Daniel Romano, The Watson Twins, The Weather Station, Jennifer Castle, Tiny Ruins, Julia Holter, John Carpenter, Tim Hecker, Matthew E. White, Calvin Johnson, Colter Wall, Twain, Angelo De Augustine, Yowler, and Will Oldham.
Bolachas Now Playing, 36/2018 (#163):
Ty Segall – Class War
Pip Blom – Pussycat
The Black Lillies – Weighting
Night Shop – The One I Love
The Skiffle Players – Cara
Beirut – Gallipoli
Daniel Romano – All The Reaching Trims
The Watson Twins – Call to You (ft. The Cactus Blossoms)
The Weather Station – I Tried to Wear the World (ft. Jennifer Castle)
Jennifer Castle – Midas Touch (ft. The Weather Station)
Tiny Ruins – Olympic Girls
Julia Holter – Words I Heard
John Carpenter – The Shape Burns
Current 93 – The Policeman Is Dead
Current 93 – 30 Red Houses
Tim Hecker – Is a rose petal of the dying crimson light
Matthew E. White – No Future In Our Frontman
Calvin Johnson – Another Teardrop Falls
Colter Wall – Wild Dogs
Twain – Young God (gotta lotta feeling)
Angelo De Augustine – Time
Yowler – Angel
Will Oldham – Party With Marty