You might know Heather Trost as one half of A Hawk and a Hacksaw (with Neutral Milk Hotel’s Jeremy Barnes) and as a collaborator in various other projects, from Beirut to Swans. “Petrichor” is her third solo LP, and unlike her mostly acoustic endeavours as a violinist, it’s a psychedelic pop treasure that won’t take long to start looping in your head (and in your favourite music player).
Bolachas Now Playing, a new music Spotify playlist, updated every Wednesday.
The Nude Party are 2020’s kings of cool. Which is kinda unfortunate, since in a normal world they would be everybody’s pick for the next festival season. Feel-good and groovy as it gets, “Midnight Manor” was clearly made for an older world where we’re all out partying. Let’s pretend it never changed.
Plus: new tracks by Esther Rose, Deep Sea Diver, The Clientele, Justin Wade Tam, Cartalk, Adrianne Lenker, Anna McClellan, Hamilton Leithauser, Jeff Tweedy of Wilco, Half Japanese, Fuzz, Te Voy A Matar, Laura Jane Grace of Against Me!, Shilpa Ray, Eartheater, Jennifer Castle, Sam Amidon, Andrew Bird, Jim Audet Music, Jonathan Wilson, Luka Kuplowsky, Brent Cobb, Kurt Vile, Steve Earle, Fruit Bats, and The Good Ones.
Bolachas Now Playing, a new music Spotify playlist, updated every Wednesday.
If every album Daniel Romano has released in 2020 was on Spotify, it’s very possible that you would have seen his face in this playlist at least three or four more times. “How Ill Thy World is Ordered”, an album credited to his Outfit, is Romano’s 10th release of the year (ninth? eleventh? We lost track) and probably the best of the bunch. If you want to see someone going from acoustic Dylan to Parsons to Vega to Springsteen to Richman to electric Dylan and simultaneously always sounding as unique as he is, here’s an album for you. Then check his Bandcamp for hours of excellent new music, from proggy jams with Tool’s Danny Carey to traditional country tunes. Daniel Romano is the hottest artist in contemporary rock and roll music.
Plus: brand new tracks by Sam Amidon, Dawes, Randall Bramblett, Grant-Lee Phillips, Native Harrow, Faye Webster, The Shilohs, Rudy de Anda, Tiña, Throwing Muses, John Davey, Porridge Radio, Mary Lattimore, Tomberlin, Trummors, Jennifer Castle, Fenne Lily, Alasdair Roberts, Tyler Childers, Waylon Payne, Becky Warren, Gus Clark, The Bad Oats, Matt Costa, Tyler Ramsey, Yo La Tengo, and Delta Spirit.
Bolachas Now Playing, 24/2017 (#109):
Fleet Foxes – I Am All That I Need / Arroyo Seco / Thumbprint Scar
So Much Light – Be Afraid
Lambchop – The Hustle Unlimited
Ride – Rocket Silver Symphony
Broken Social Scene – Skyline
Protomartyr – A Private Understanding
Thurston Moore – Smoke of Dreams
Beach House – Baby
Will Samson – Welcome Oxygen – Day Five
Kronos Quartet & Sam Amidon – Oh Where
Roselit Bone – By the Glint of Your Horns
House and Land – The Day is Past and Gone
Offa Rex – Sheepcrook and Black Dog
Richard Thompson – Gethsemane
Kevin Morby – Pearly Gates
Zephaniah Ohora and the 18 Wheelers – She’s Leaving in the Morning
Jolie Holland & Samantha Parton – You Are Not Needed Now
Karima Walker – Indigo
Demen – Flor
Fleet Foxes – Crack-Up
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