
Three years after the stellar “You, Forever”, Sam Evian is back with a new album. Eleven psychedelic pop gems to brighten up your post-Daylight Saving Time late afternoon blues, if that’s a thing where you live.
Three years after the stellar “You, Forever”, Sam Evian is back with a new album. Eleven psychedelic pop gems to brighten up your post-Daylight Saving Time late afternoon blues, if that’s a thing where you live.
Though it helps, you don’t have to be a 25 year-old millennial to deeply empathise with Phoebe Bridgers’ sophomore album, “Punisher”. The star-studded ensemble of guests (Conor Oberst, Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus) and its universal and hauntingly beautiful themes of lost love, impostor syndrome and the end of the world will leave their mark on you. We dare you to try to listen to it only once. +: new tracks by Bob Dylan, Bright Eyes, Hayley Thompson-King, Mike Polizze (Purling Hiss), Tiña, The Fiery Furnaces, Elephant Stone, Sun on Shade (Heath Fogg from Alabama Shakes), Los Retros, Gum Country, Sports Team, Fontaines D.C., Noveller, Jeremy Fetzer, Wilder Maker & Gabriel Birnbaum, Thomas Csorba, Colter Wall, John Craigie, Neil Young, Willie Nelson, Ronnie Fauss, Arlo McKinley, Steve Gunn & Cass McCombs, and Mary Chapin Carpenter.
Katie Von Schleicher’s “Consummation” is not only our album of the week, It’s one of our top albums of the year so far, too. There are 27 other songs on this week’s playlist, but if I were you I’d go explore that treatise on indie rock — and the rest of her discography, while you’re at it. New tracks by Jason Molina, Natalie Jane Hill, Soccer Mommy, Good Dog, A.O. Gerber, Becca Mancari, Matt Berninger, Camille Delean, Roadside Graves, Owen Pallett, TALsounds, Neil Young, Steve Earle, M. Lockwood Porter, Country Westerns, Jeff Rosenstock, IDLES, Shilpa Ray, Combo Qazam, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Angel Bat Dawid, Nidia, Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids, Mulatu Astatke, Purling Hiss‘ Mike Polizze, Woods, and Okey Dokey.
Bolachas Now Playing, 41/2017 (#126):
Neil Young + Promise of the Real – Forever
Belle Adair – Neptune City
Craig Finn – Fault Lines
The Hold Steady – A Snake in the Shower
Drive-By Truckers – Perilous Night
Jonathan Wilson – Over the Midnight
Chris Stapleton – Nobody’s Lonely Tonight
Chris Stapleton – Friendship
Bahamas – Way With Words
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings – Sail On!
First Aid Kit – Postcard
Charlotte Gainsbourg – Ring-a-Ring O’ Roses
Alela Diane – Émigré
Taylor Swift – New Year’s Day
Bedouine – Louise
Nicholas Krgovich – On the Main Drag
Howe Gelb – Not the End of the World
Bolachas Now Playing, 30/2017 (#115):
Neil Young – Pocahontas
Lomelda – Interstate Vision
Lomelda – Out There
Joana Serrat – Trapped in the Fog
Courtney Marie Andrews – Sea Town
Weyes Blood – A Certain Kind
Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions – Sleep
St. Vincent – Los Ageless
John Maus – The Combine
Beck – Up All Night
Shilpa Ray – Morning Terrors Nights of Dread
Margo Price – A Little Pain
Karl Blau – Slow Children
Donivan Berube – Love is a Dog from Hell
Moses Sumney – Indulge Me
Van Morrison – Goin’ to Chicago
Josh Ritter, Bob Weir – When Will I Be Changed
Chad VanGaalen – Pine and Clover
Jolie Holland, Samantha Parton – Biding My Time
Matt Paxton – Hunter Street Station Blues