Sound Cloud Sunday – September 26, 2021

  

Sound Cloud Sunday September 26, 2021

 #laurelcanyonradioradio #laurelcanyonsound Sorry we’ve been away, curating new music for our show this week and here it is.  You will be able to listen to this show on our app or click below:

 

 

Geese – Low Era

 

Hometown:  Brooklyn, NY

Album:  New single released August 24.

 

Review Snippet: Early on, the band bonded over sprawling psychedelic rock from 70s bands like Yes and Pink Floyd, and the band’s first unreleased EP revels in these shared influences. However, the primary benefit of this early attempt at recording seems to have been learning the do’s and don’ts of DIY.

 

Website: https://geeseband.com/

 

 

The Arcadian Wild – Everybody Wants To Rule The World

 

Hometown:  Nashville, TN

Album:  From the album “Winter: Will” out August 24.

 

Review Snippet: Led by songwriters Isaac Horn (guitar) and Lincoln Mick (mandolin), and with the support of other gifted musicians, The Arcadian Wild confidently inhabits and explores an intersection of genre, blending the traditional with the contemporary in order to create a unique acoustic sound that is simultaneously unified and diverse. With one foot planted firmly in choral and formal vocal music, and the other in progressive folk and bluegrass, the band offers up songs of invitation: calls to come and see, to find refuge and rest, or to journey and wonder. Currently, The Arcadian Wild is touring off the anticipation and successful release of their sophomore record, “Finch in the Pantry” (May 2019, Antifragile Music), which debuted at #9 on the Billboard bluegrass charts.

 

Website:   https://www.thearcadianwild.com/

 

 

Katey Brooks – Before You Say Goodbye

 

Hometown:  Bristol, UK

Album:  New single out September 10.

 

Review Snippet: Stark and soulful.

 

Website:   https://kateybrooks.com

 

 

Tony Kamel – Heat

 

Hometown:  Austin via New Orleans

Album:  From the album “Better Way Home” out September 24 (wood and wire frontman

 

Review Snippet: While Back Down Home doesn’t stray too far afield from W&W familiarity, the album’s distinctly Kamel’s, allowing him to lean into ballads and strike a more reflective and personal tone. It also flows more heavily into Kamel’s Gulf Coast roots, playfully striking up Cajun rhythms and East Texas blues.

 

Website:   http://www.tonykamelmusic.com/

 

Derya Ylidrim  & Grup Simsek – Hastane Onu

 

Hometown:  Hamburg, Germany via Turkey

Album:  From the album DOST 1 Out June 25

 

Review Snippet:

 

Website:   https://deryayildirimandgrupsimsek.bandcamp.com/album/dost-1

 

 

War and Pierce – Mercy

 

Hometown:  Los Angeles

Album:  From 2017?

 

Review Snippet: She’s Sunny War; he’s Chris Pierce. Together, they’re War & Pierce. In recent years, the artists have grown in stature, with War’s Simple Syrup and Pierce’s American Silence released to acclaim in 2021. With a new album set to release in Spring 2022, the two artists are returning to their duo project with the chilling melodies of “Mercy”. Dealing with the harsh realities of police brutality against Black Americans, “Mercy” is a scorching soul track with an indelible hook and powerful message.

 

Website:   http://www.warandpierce.com/

 

 

Samantha Fish – Better Be Lonely

 

Hometown:  Kansas City, MO

Album:  From the album “Faster!” out on Rounder Records on October 1.

 

Review Snippet: Fish has earned her rightful place amidst the cream of blues rock songwriters and performing artists. Absurd guitar skills, captivating vocals, an ear for great hooks and high-octane live performances are her main assets as she climbs her way to the top. Although never restricting to one formula, Fish takes a step forward in her career with her newest release, Faster, which explores new ground and incorporates elements of pop, contemporary R & B and hip-hop into her music. Let us take a closer look at the results of this ambitious endeavor.

 

Website: https://www.samanthafish.com/

 

 

Watchhouse – Better Way

 

Hometown:  Chapel Hill, NC

Album:  Released in May on Tiptoe Tiger Records (formerly Mipso)

 

Review Snippet: Emily Frantz creates with their new eponymous effort, then perhaps the connection becomes clearer. The calming caress that accompanies each of the entries on the album gently hovers over the proceedings while exuding a protective kind of presence through a series of wistful refrains. There’s unabashed eloquence found in songs such as “Lonely Love Affair,” “Wondrous Love” and “Belly of the Beast,” which radiate a shared optimism that’s present throughout. So too, the album’s sole instrumental, “Coming Down Green Mountain,” with its gently plucked mandolin and lilting violin, reaffirms the delicacy of their delivery. With “Nightbird,” the beautiful ballad that ends the set, the meditative mood and shared sense of celebration find a perfect pairing.

 

Website: https://watchhouseband.com/

 

 

Tre Burt – Ransom Blues

 

Hometown:  Sacramento, CA

Album:  From the album “You Yeah You”

 

Review Snippet: The songs on Tre Burt’s new album collide—sometimes with a hollow thump and other times with a resounding clatter—at the intersection of hopelessness and anger and hope and love. On his sophomore album, You, Yeah, You (Oh Boy Records), Burt is joined by co-producer Brad Cook on bass and synths, Phil Cook on keys and harmonica, Alex Farrar on guitar, Matt McCaughan on drums, percussions, modular synth, and Amelia Meath and Kelsey Waldon on backing vocals.

 

Website: https://www.treburt.com/

 

 

 

Riddy Arman – Barbed Wire

 

Hometown:

Album:  Self-titled debut came out July 7 on La Honda Records

 

Review Snippet: On her full length debut, Riddy Arman weaves together a beautiful album with little more than stark acoustic strumming, sad songs and hauntingly striking vocals. The self-titled record opens with “Spirits, Angels, Or Lies,” about her father’s death and visions of a visit from Johnny Cash on a train foreshadowing his death. It’s deeply personal, highly affecting and a pretty solid prelude to what follows.

 

Website: https://www.riddyarman.com/

 

Evan Wright – People

 

Hometown:  Cleveland, OH

Album:  From the ep “People” released in August.

 

Review Snippet:

Multi-instrumentalist Evan Wright brings us his new album ‘Sound From Out the Window’ a filmic collection of psychedelic, country flavoured indie songs which revel in intimacy. The dreamlike album was self-recorded, produced and mixed between his apartment in New York pre Covid and his parents’ barn in New Jersey during quarantine.

Opening track ‘People’ thoughtfully uses the harpsichord complimenting Wright’s vocals which are tenderly muffled throughout the album. It is a bittersweet yearning for nostalgia that also anchors an appreciation for what may come. Following this is stand out track ‘IDM’ an ode to being carefree in a complicated world. Submerged in different textures, where drums resonate and the guitar utilises a 60s sound with tremolo, this song makes a statement.

 

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Sue Foley – Hurricane Girl

 

Hometown:  Austin via Ottawa

Album:  From the album “Pinky’s Blues” out mid-October

 

Review Snippet: On top of being a triple threat – guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist – her resume boasts nation-wide sold out shows, a Juno award, and the record for the most Maple Blues Awards in the country.

 

Website:   http://suefoley.com/

 

 

Son Savage – The River

 

Hometown:  Dubai

Album:  Single

 

Review Snippet: ‘The River’ explores toxic patterns that can occur in love where there is no attempt at change within yourself. In repeating the same scenarios of love with different people expecting something to change, you end up attracting the same type of person and going down the same path over and over again.

Talking about the track, Son Savage says, “The track explores toxic patterns in the context of love (The whole album explores love as a form of ‘folie a deux’). The River speaks about repetition, doing sh*t you know won’t end well but drifting along with it regardless.”

Son Savage brings a much needed global perspective to his anthemic, high energy pop music.

 

Website:   https://sonsavage.com/

 

 

 

 

Joe Troop – Love Along The Way

 

Hometown:  Winston-Salem, NC

Album:  From the album “Borrowed Time” out now.

 

Review Snippet:

Eclectic. The music of Joe Troop & his banjo slides down the same slopes as Pete Seeger. He has Appalachian flavors, & injects pretty cool sideswipes by adding Spanish words in the concluding moments of “Horizon.” I listen & come away believing if legendary acoustic guitarist John Fahey had a cousin who played banjo, Joe Troop would be him.

Troop’s voice is thin – but it’s the thinness that lends it its genuine quality, authenticity. Troop (banjo/vocals/guitar/fiddle) certainly has enthusiasm in his voice & range. He’s effective with “The Rise of Dreama Caldwell.” A fluent folk heavy riveting showcase where Joe hits high notes with clarity, & emotion, as well as, venom & conviction.

 

Website: https://www.joetroop.com/

 

 

Connie Smith – Three Sides

 

Hometown:  Elkhart, IN

Album:

 

Review Snippet: “She might sing a sad song but she’s never sounded like a victim,” the country singer Lee Ann Womack, a longtime fan, said in an interview. “She’s always sounded like she could kick your ass.”

 

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Joshua Ray Walker – Sexy After Dark

Hometown:  Texas

Album:  Lead single from the album “See You Next Time”

 

Review Snippet:  Country’s most fascinating young songwriter is a baby-faced, 6XL guitar hero with a Dwight Yoakam voice and songs about suicide and boat-show models

 

Website:   http://www.joshuaraywalker.com/bio