Sound Cloud Sunday – July 5, 2020
Sound Cloud Sunday July 5, 2020
Happy Independence Weekend from your heat-seeking musicologists at Laurel Canyon Radio. We’ve gathered another episode of hot-off-the-press indie music from all four corners of the globe for you today. Click on the link below to hear the latest episode. We will also be storing this show in the podcast of our mobile app, so look for this episode of Sound Cloud Sunday on your mobile applications.
Stay safe, wear your mask and we will get through this together.
Semisonic – You’re Not Alone
Hometown: Minneapolis, MN
Album: From the EP “You’re Not Alone” out September 18 on Pleasuresonic Records.
Review Snippet: Semisonic taps into a vein of singer-songwriter introspection only hinted at by the appearance of Carole King
Website: https://semisonic.com/
Juni Ata – Philadelphia
Hometown: Nashville via Los Angeles
Album: “Soudade” will be released when the pandemic is over.
Review Snippet: The first seeds of Jesse Daniel Edwards’ musical life were sewn in a field as rich as it is American. Raised first in a small mountain town in Southern California, his was a deeply religious household headed by a career Navy man that his siblings called “The Captain.” There was daily prayer, the study of Scripture, and as it often goes in such homes, very little popular music — Jesse would not hear his first Bob Dylan song until his early 20s. But it was a home of great musicality all the same, for among the wildflowers and mountain streams of this idyllic California scene, Jesse often sat at the feet of his grandfather, listening in awe as the old man performed the songs of The Sound of Music on a battered ukulele.
Website: https://alleyesmedia.com/clients/juni-ata-copy/
Dan Penn – Living On Mercy
Hometown: Center Star, Alabama
Album: From the album “Living On Mercy” out August 28 on Last Music
Review Snippet:
There aren’t many musical heroes like Dan Penn. In songwriting circles his name is as good as gold, and often platinum. And when it comes to those who can give life to the human spirit in song, it sometimes feels like Penn is traveling in a party of one. His voice sounds like it comes from the strong Southern soil in Alabama where he was born and raised, and then deepened in Memphis and Muscle Shoals. It is a true fact that when Dan Penn sings one of his own songs, something happens that is beyond sound. A light is turned on inside his listeners, and the world takes on an added dimension.
On his new album, ‘Living on Mercy’, out August 28, 2020 on Last Music Co., Dan Penn collaborates with some of the other best songwriters in Nashville, Memphis, Muscle Shoals and points beyond, and applies all the wondrous things he’s seen and learned since his first songwriting job when he was 16 years old. There is a truthful essence in his new music that feels like it is directed by a higher source, one that opens the door to an eternal understanding of what songs are capable of.
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The Suffers – Take Me To The Good Times
Hometown: Houston, TX
Album: New single released June 24 on Midcitizen Records.
Review Snippet: The vividness and conviviality of The Suffers’ new collection of 15 tracks, if not its actual sound, recalls the immersiveness of Earth, Wind & Fire — the way that EWF illustrated entire universes through its performances and, in Jason King’s words, “envisioned polyrhythmic pop as a musical antidepressant.” Not that the younger ensemble is after quite such an otherworldly presentation.
Website: http://www.thesuffers.com/
Edo & Jo – Seekers
Hometown: Australia
Album: From the album “Seekers” available on their website.
Review Snippet: The final Edo & Jo album is beautiful meandering journey of English mixed mantra songs about the search for the love within recorded between 2010-2015 in Sydney, Bali and India.
Website: https://www.edoandjo.com/
Bakar – Hell And Back
Hometown: London, England
Album: From the EP “Will You Be My Yellow?” released September 2019 on Black Butter.
Review Snippet: Moving into the album, the highlights include the lead single, “Hell N Back,” as well as the fourth track, “Stop Selling Her Drugs” featuring Dominic Fike. “Hell N Back” maintains all the beauty it did upon its initial release, as it is not only smooth and groovy but fits perfectly into the theme of the album. Bakar describes the turmoil of a struggling relationship but ultimately the reward that comes with overcoming it. Perfectly fitting into the theme of the album, Bakar questions, “Will you be my light, be my yellow?” This question alone shows the yearning for a person to step into the role of providing light to Bakar’s life.
Website: https://soundcloud.com/yeaabk?fbclid=IwAR0rB5vRy40gCbZFPz3Wx46jLflL96N2V7MbGfc-dFiHu1r2-LRGZL5Cdas
Kavus Torabi – Cemetery of Light
Hometown: London via Tehran
Album: From the album “Hip To The Jag” out May 22 on Believers Roast Records.
Review Snippet: Over the past two decades, Kavus Torabi has done his utmost to inject a skewed sense of wonder into our lives via numerous bands and side projects. Rising to prominence as a member of Cardiacs, he’s developed a unique perspective on contemporary music, and shared his talents out most recently between the righteous psychedelia of Gong, the cosmic electronica of The Utopia Strong, and the ecstatic prog of his own band Knifeworld.
Website: https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Musician-Band/Kavus-Torabi-104330127792377/
Greg Hudik – Nobody Wears It Like You
Hometown: Nashville
Album: New single released on June 14 on Platinum Records.
Review Snippet: Since recording his first recorded by John Rosin who recorded Bob Seger, Peter Frampton, Jackson Browne’s record. Rosin recorded Greg Hudik’s first recorded live in 1986 on MTV’s first televised spring break view by a estimated 80 million people.
Website: https://platinumrecordsnashville.com/
Rachel Garlin – Capture Me
Hometown: San Francisco
Album: From the album “Mondegreens” released April on Tactile Records.
Review Snippet: Singer/songwriter Rachel Garlin’s music can be categorized as more than just songs, but as lyrical stories. “Broke Down House” tells the tale of friends who were offered a decent sum for their house, but turned it down because it was their home. “The Sea You See” is an ode to her mother, a Scottish traveler who found herself in America after planning on going to New Zealand.
Website: https://rachelgarlin.com/
Maple Run Band – Queen of Labrador City
Hometown: Vermont
Album: Their eponymous debut album will be available in July sometime.
Review Snippet: Whatever you want to call it, Maple Run Band plays a style of music that’s at once both reminiscent and original. The music is descended from a family tree that includes Gram Parsons, Neil Young, Buck Owens, The Band, Uncle Tupelo, and John Prine, but inhabits a sonic realm shared by modern acts like Shovels & Rope, Jason Isbell, The Avett Brothers, Brandi Carlile, and Chris Stapleton.
Website: https://www.maplerunband.com/
Victor Wainwright – South End of A North Bound Mule
Hometown: Savannah, GA
Album: From the album Memphis Loud soon to be released on Ruf Records.
Review Snippet: “If you want to travel American, climb aboard The Train… As a GRAMMY-nominated kingpin of American roots music, Victor Wainwright’s 2020 release is a snapshot of the nation’s great cities and genres, embodying a connection between exciting unseen places with a modern twist. As the title suggests, Memphis Loud’s rattle-and-shout originals demand to be played at speaker-shaking volume. “Find a moment,” he advises, “to sit back with your favorite headphones or speakers, turn it up, and listen. It’s heavy, and I know you’re gonna love it.”
Website: https://victorwainwright.com/
Town Meeting – A Goddamn Song
Hometown: New England
Album: From the album “Make Things Better” released June 19 (self-released).
Review Snippet: Town Meeting is 100% committed to their live show. This is a band that is to be not only heard, but seen and experienced. They have had the privilege of sharing the stage with Willie Nelson, Sturgill Simpson, The Avett Brothers and Brandi Carlile among others. Currently their single “Good Enough” can be heard on Spotify’s “Pulse Of Americana” soundtrack. While they’re music sounds great on a record, to truly understand Town Meeting you must see them live.
Website: https://www.facebook.com/pg/TownMeeting/about/?ref=page_internal
Cat Clyde – Man I Loved Blues
Hometown: Stratford, Ontario
Album: From the album “Good Bones” out June 19 on Cinematic Records.
Review Snippet: Cat Clyde, a brand new artist out of Stratford, Ontario. A fresh take on the classic sounds of yesteryear; breathing new life into the velvety vocal, tack-piano, slide-guitar-style that can instantly walk you through the swinging doors of a packed saloon
Website: https://catclydemusic.com/
The Texas Gentlemen – Easy Street
Hometown: Texas
Album: From their new album Floor It!!! Out July 17 on New West Records.
Review Snippet: What they did accomplish is, to put it mildly, pretty impressive. While the Gentlemen’s sound is clearly steeped in the classic roots, rock and pop music of the ‘60s and ‘70s, there’s a dreamy (the lilting “Sing Me to Sleep”), spacey (“Skyway Streetcar”) and occasionally progressive (the groovy instrumental journey “Dark at the End of the Tunnel”) element to what they do that seems to detach the music from belonging to any particular place and time.
Website: https://www.thetexasgentlemen.com/
Cary Morin – Nobody Gotta Know
Hometown: Great Falls, MT
Album: From the album “Dockside Saints” out August 7 self-released.
Review Snippet: Cary Morin brings together the great musical traditions of American and beyond like no other, from the rocking, electrified world groove of The Atoll, to the pared-down acoustic blues of Sing It Louder and Streamline, which showcases Morin’s deft fingerstyle guitar.
Website: https://www.carymorin.com/
