Sound Cloud Sunday – June 6, 2021

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Sound Cloud Sunday June 6, 2021

A new episode coming your way this week!

Matt Ward – Lost And Found

Hometown: Adelaide, Australia

Album: New single.

Review Snippet: In the 21st century, Australian Americana and alt-country music have succeeded in taking the key ingredients of country music and blending them with folk, indie-rock, blues and psychedelia to create a soundtrack to urban cosmopolitan living, while still recognising and celebrating the genre’s organic roots-based origin

Website: https://www.mattwardmusic.com/

Vilnes – Show Me The Love

Hometown: Bergen, Norway

Album: Single released May 21 on Lekrofon.

Review Snippet: Norwegian frontman channels the wistful folk aesthetic of Fleet Foxes

Website: https://singstad-music.com/artists/vilnes/

The Lone Bellow – Wash It Clean

Hometown: Brooklyn, NY

Album: From the album “Half Moon Light” on Duotone.

Review Snippet:

Website: https://www.thelonebellow.com/

Joy Oladokun feat Maren Morris – Bigger Man

Hometown: Casa Grande, Arizona

Album: From the album “In Defense Of My Own Happiness out June 4 on Verve.

Review Snippet: Warming up for Jason Isbell

Website: https://www.joyoladokun.com/

Eddie 9V – Little Black Flies

Hometown: Atlanta, GA

Album: From the album “Little Black Flies” out May 28 on Ruf Records.

Review Snippet:

Website: https://www.eddie9v.com/

Anne Freeman – When I’m A Wreck

Hometown: Oxford, Mississippi

Album: “Keep It Close” out June 25 on Muscle Beach Records.

Review Snippet:

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

Mustafa – Stay Alive

Hometown: Toronto, Ontario Canada

Album: From the EP “When Smoke Rises” released May 27 on Regent Park Sounds.

Review Snippet: In the video for “Stay Alive,” a searing portrait of his community and his commitment to it, black and brown men in chains and hoodies make elaborate hand gestures to the camera as Mustafa pleads for their survival. He offers himself to them to ensure it. “Just put down that bottle, tell me your sorrows,” he sings. “I care about you fam.” His folk-inflected music, tender and calm, and these videos, serene and defiant, honor his neighborhood with the softness so often absent in attitudes and policy towards poor people.

Website:

Vincent Neil Emerson – Texas Moon

Hometown: Van Zandt County Texas

Album: Self-titled debut out June 25 on La Honda Records.

Review Snippet:

“If he grows on the public the way he’s grown on me, it’s possible young Vincent will plant the flag of his [songwriting] forebears firmly in the consciousness of a whole new generation.”

— RODNEY CROWELL

Website: https://vincentneilemerson.com/

Spacey Jane – Booster Seat

Hometown: Australia

Album: From the album “Sunlight” released last June

Review Snippet:

Spiralling around the rise and fall of a trilling guitar hook, the mellow ‘Booster Seat’ deals with “feeling like anxiety and depression are taking control away from you,” frontman Caleb Harper explained to triple j’s Richard Kingsmill in 2020. “I drew on feelings of my childhood and those vulnerabilities you have and how they’re still very relevant today.”

He likens the way he’s depended on others to the way a child riding in a car implicitly trusts their parents to keep them safe by restraining them. It’s a complex emotional metaphor made easy to grasp by the imagery of the ‘Booster Seat’ and the song’s gorgeous refrain.

Website: https://spaceyjane.com.au/

Ryan Culwell And Aubrey Sellers – Head Like A Hole

Hometown: Nashville, TN

Album: From the album “Head Like A Hole”…not sure if it is out yet. Nine Inch Nails Cover!

Review Snippet:

Website: https://www.ryanculwell.com/

Julian Bregliano – I Can’t Have It All

Hometown: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Album: From the EP “Reload” released May 6 on Spinnup Records.

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Website:

Ben Rector – Range Rover

Hometown: Tulsa, OK

Album: Single featuring Stevie Winwood on OK Kid Recordings.

Review Snippet:

Website: https://www.benrectormusic.com/

Love Crumbs – Cavalcades

Hometown: Massachusettes

Album: Single self-released in January.

Review Snippet: Love Crumbs trio is comprised of members Ali (lead vocals), Michael
(guitar/vocals) and Scott (bass). Fronted by Ali, whose passionate rasp
and powerful rock vocals draw comparison to iconic female powerhouses
Stevie Nicks and Janis Joplin, Love Crumbs is musically and lyrically
influenced by the likes of Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, The Beatles, Bon Iver
and Fleetwood Mac.

Website: https://lovecrumbsmusic.com/