Sound Cloud Sunday – January 24, 2021

Sound Cloud Sunday January 24, 2021

 

More great new independent music on Laurel Canyon Radio from the indie-verse.  Enjoy this week’s show below:

 

Young Gun Silver Fox – Kids

 

Hometown: London

Album:     From the album “Canyons” out February on Karma Chief Records.

 

Review Snippet: A soon-to-be critically acclaimed album that pays homage to the warm, analogue So-Cal pop-rock classics of the mid-to-late 1970s. Classified as Yacht Rock, Young Gun Silver Fox have created a debut album that is a testament to the AOR Studio Sound. Hands down, West End Coast is sonic gold.

 

Website:  https://www.facebook.com/younggunsilverfox/

 

 

Pearl Charles – Imposter

 

Hometown: Los Angeles

Album:     From the album “Sleepless Dreamer” out January 15 on Kanine Records.

 

Review Snippet: Magic Mirror takes a look at the world and despite everything finds beauty, love, hope. California dreamers unite on the dance floor in your mind and Pearl Charles will banish those winter blues.

 

Website:  https://pearlcharlesmusic.bandcamp.com/album/magic-mirror

 

 

Lance Dubroc – I Don’t Want To Lose You Anna

 

Hometown: St. Landry Parrish, Louisiana

Album:     From the EP “Sunny Days” out February 26 on Intercept.

 

Review Snippet: He hails from Louisiana, and that soulful bayou flavor the region is known for can be heard sprinkled throughout every note on the record. At the same time, every bit of influence and grandeur held by the infamous Muscle Shoals infiltrates his music, too. It’s a fabulous mix of all of DuBroc’s musical influences, from soul and R&B with a dash of country and rock, to sounds reflecting his roots from the Cajun and Creole areas he was raised in. And that voice—with notes of everything mentioned prior slathered with copious amounts of gospel, Dubroc will take ya to the church grounds with that soul food he’s feeding you.

 

Website:  https://www.lancedubroc.com/

 

 

The Libras – Faded

 

Hometown: Little Rock, AR

Album:     From the album “Faded” out February 26 on Out of The Past Records.

 

Review Snippet: “Faded” focuses on the emotions of what it’s like to be in quarantine, since all the songs were written during that time. The opening lyrics, “I’m tired of you, I’m tired of me,” set the tone for the rest of the songs. “Quiet Part Loud” fits into this album because while it is about a relationship, it contains some similar emotions to being in quarantine. In both cases, they revolve around feeling stuck in a bad situation.

 

Website:  https://thelibras.com/

 

 

John Hurlbut and Jorma Kaukonen – Travelin’

 

Hometown:

Album:     From the album “The River Flows” released December 25 on Culture Factory Records.

 

Review Snippet: When I first heard John Hurlbut’s and Jorma Kaukonen’s acoustic album, The River Flows, my being instantly welled up to the sound, welcoming it like an ocean does a river. With tears filling my eyes, the quality of the music made me realize—There’s something about greatness that opens the soul to living. What was it that I was experiencing which caused me to think such things, to feel such sentiment? John and Jorma’s touch begs the asking. Released on Christmas Day, 2020, following an exclusive LP release over Thanksgiving, this album is a gift in so many ways, and one for which we all can be thankful. Its very nature erupts out of such premium ingredients, one is immediately transported into the profound and beautiful. Caught in the listening, I was so appreciatively inspired, I’m more apt to write a thank you note than an album review. From the very first moments, I knew I had something special, yet it wasn’t until I dove into its ingredients that I realized all that comprises this sublime sound experience.

 

Website:  https://www.furpeaceranch.com/john-hurlbut/

 

 

Kolby Knickerbocker – Over And Over

 

Hometown: Bend, OR

Album:     New single

 

Review Snippet: If you want your soul replenished, listen to Kolby Knickerbocker’s music!

 

Website:  https://www.kolbyknickerbocker.com/

 

 

Zeni Danussi – All The Reasons

 

Hometown: England

Album:     From the album “Whiskey Blues” released independently

 

Review Snippet:  ZD music is no-nonsense, heads down, in your face solos and guitar riffs. The Danussi experience will put you on a platform of pure rock energy, thrusting you into a world of escape, with the guitars smashing you through a brick wall of serious energy / emotions.

 

Website: http://www.zenidanussi.co.uk/

 

 

Bahamas – Trick To Happy

 

Hometown:  Toronto, Canada

Album:     From the album “Sad Hunk” on Brushfire released last September.

 

Review Snippet: The funk is alive and well in Sad Hunk, along with the folk roots that the Canada-based musician Bahamas—also known as Afie Jurvanen—has always had. This is Bahamas’ fifth album release and marks over 10 years of him having released music. What I love about artists who release albums throughout the years is seeing growth in their own sound. Pink Strat, Bahamas’ first album, almost sounds nothing like what you can find on Sad Hunk. It seems as though Bahamas couldn’t shake off the ’70s funk vibe from his last release, Earthtones, and there’s no complaints here.

 

Website:  https://bahamasmusic.net/

 

 

Caitlin Hartnett & The Pony Boys – Make You Feel Blue

 

Hometown:  Sydney, Australia

Album:     From the album “Late Night Essentials” released October 26 on Essential Records.

 

Review Snippet: This tune is the group’s second 2020 release following their soulful and painfully relatable track ‘5am,’ and while it’s a little bit softer of a track than the last, both showcase Caitlin Harnett’s voice perfectly. She serenades about the sorrow revolving a past relationship, accompanied with a beautiful guitar melody and pleasing drums.
Harnett’s vocals are like a distant cousin of Taylor Swift and Sonia Leigh, with her own twist of irresistible soul that makes it hard not to listen.

 

Website:  https://caitlinharnett.com/

 

 

Andrew Green – Aja (featuring Miriam Weeks)

 

Hometown:  Brooklyn, NY

Album:     From the album “Dime Dancing The Music of Steely Dan”

 

Review Snippet:  Released on October 23 on Shifting Paradigm Records.

 

Website:  https://verdantsongs.com/

 

 

J.E. Sunde – Sunset Strip

 

Hometown: Minneapolis, MN

Album:     From the album “9 Songs About Love” self released in November.

 

Review Snippet: Jonathan Edward Sunde (J.E. Sunde) writes songs that allow you to drift away to a laid back time in Southern California where everything that rattled out of Laurel Canyon came out glorious and gold.  Sunde sounds like those great CSN(Y) albums when Graham Nash took a turn at a song. The classic singer/songwriter influences are all here—it’s easy to close your eyes and find them as Sunde’s songs unfold. At this point, I want to be clear: J.E. Sunde is not a nostalgic act; he also sounds modern, immediate and new.

 

Website:  http://www.jesunde.com/

 

 

Magnolia Boulevard – Sister 

 

Hometown:  Lexington, KY

Album:     From the EP “New Ilusion”  self-released in August.

 

Review Snippet: Magnolia Boulevard’s debut album, “New Illusion” is contagious with its bluesy, soulful flavor and grooves that jam effortlessl

 

Website:  https://www.magnoliaboulevardband.com/

 

 

 

The Loft Club (Featuring Lisa Loeb) – Flicker

 

Hometown: London

Album:     From the album “Dreaming The Impossible” released in August on So Let’s Talk Records.

 

Review Snippet: This English five-piece is fronted by singer and guitarist Daniel Schamroth who also wrote all the songs here with the exception of a co-write with Lisa Loeb on one cut. The effort begins with the title cut, a lush and somewhat understated mid-tempo rocker that sounds like a mash up of the Verve and Poco. Bass work from Jamie Whyte adds an element of funk to “I’m Just a Man,” a cut that, if you again want to think of as a mash up, nods to Jack White and the Eurythmics. Those references should give you an idea that there’s something special going on here, and whether you recognize echoes of Oasis in “Keep Me Coming Home” or not, you’ll easily get lost in the jangle pop of “True Love,” the dream pop of “You Are the Sun,” the Dylan-esque “Flat Broke” and the emotive singing of Schamroth in general throughout. The 12-song set closes out with the psych-tinged “Waves” and “Flicker” where co-writer Loeb adds sublime lead vocals on one verse as well as harmonies with Schamroth throughout the song. Great melodic music here, and the Loft Club are ready to tour the U.S. for the first time when the pandemic settles down. That jaunt will likely garner the band tons of new fans; in the meantime you can get a head start with Dreaming The Impossible.

 

Website:  https://theloftclubband.com/

 

 

Ross Cooper – Hello Sunshine

 

Hometown:  Lubbock , TX

Album:    From the album “Chasing Old Highs” out February 26 on Start Swimming Records.

 

Review Snippet:

 

Website:  https://www.ross-cooper.com/

 

 

Mac Leaphart – That Train

 

Hometown: Nashville, TN

Album:     From the album “Music City Joke” out February 12

 

Review Snippet:

Nashville-based, South Carolina-born singer-songwriter Mac Leaphart’s upcoming album, Music City Joke, offers his strongest batch of songs to date. The 10-song collection, set for release on Feb. 12, 2021, finds Leaphart at his very best: wry, rugged, and recharged, singing songs that conjure up memories of front porches, honky tonks, heartbreaks, and dive bars. Wide Open Country notes “Blame on the Bottle,” the album’s lead single, “channels the humor and heart of folk heroes like John Prine and Hayes Carll.”

Produced by Brad Jones (Hayes Carll), Music City Joke is a rallying cry from an artist who has spent more than a decade paying his dues and whittling his craft, joined by a team of longtime Nashville staples, including Fats Kaplan, Will Kimbrough, and Matt Menefee, as the soundtrack to his lyric-driven, story-based songwriting.

 

Website:  https://macleaphart.com/