Martha Hill – Black Crow
Martha Hill is a singer-songwriter and an alt folk artist. She has a very sentimental style. Her compositions are beautiful to journey through emotions with. There is an innate humanness that is crafted into it. ‘Black Crow’ is the artist’s latest single, a track that she writes for her lost friend. One whom she recalls spending time with, sharing a life with. For this track, she delves into the deep silence of the void that the friend has left behind. With stories, memory frames, emotional imagery and intimate thoughts, the artist reveals the relationship, both past and present, vulnerably. She lets the grief diffuse into the track. It settles on everything. Soft yet heartbreaking, it materialises in the acoustic lines, in the vocals. With this track, the artist demonstrates how haunting loss can be and how incredibly deep that horror runs. With imagery of black crows, loneliness, deafening silence, and deep deep sorrow, this beautiful song immortalises humans in grief. Listen Now!
Man From The Woods – We Live In These Woods
Man From The Woods gives us a free and open space in his latest single, ‘We Live In These Woods’. He brings the expansive vitality of the woods into the song, gives us that feeling of being surrounded by beauty and incredible grandeur. The song is minimalistic. Raw acoustic guitar and bare vocals. In this ambience of appreciating the woods, he goes into how we’ve ungrounded ourselves with our thoughtfulness practices and lifestyles. He says that the woods don’t feel the same and builds on it. Juxtaposing the variety of texture, feeling, imagery, and beauty of the forest with the fatiguing experience of screens, he asks his listener to wake up. To leave the screens behind for nature. There’s a deeper level as well here, so many intact that this serves as a metaphor, a reminder for. Incredibly powerful and an important reminder enfolded in a soft, acoustic song.
Manuka – Antenna
Manuka is a singer-songwriter who has a dreamy alt folk style. Her music is a swirling world of thoughts and feelings, so intimately presented. Listening to her music is like having a gentle melody breeze circle you. Her latest release is ‘Antenna’, a track about not falling in love yet again with the wrong person. It’s an internal dialogue with the self, stepping back from the scene and unlearning pain. It’s so beautiful, because the artist ties in growing and learning with past patterns and heartache. All while keeping the atmosphere soft and delicate. The acoustics are soft ebbing tides, gently rippling by. Manuka’s vocals depict an inner voice that is so kind and compassionate but discerning and wise. If you need a friendly voice to lead you out of a tempting heartache situation, this is a song you need to bury yourself in.
Paul Garside – Mariana Trench
Paul Garside’s style can be defined as rustic folk. With raw acoustic textures and bare vocal emotion, the songs are an open book. The artist lays it all out on the page. No filter, nothing holding him back. His latest release is ‘Mariana Trench’, a reflective, descriptive tale about the process of rooting back to the self. The artist uses Mariana Trench as a metaphor for the depth that he found within himself. Journeying to it, he finds out the true nature of who he is and what he’s made up of. The composition is designed to present with clarity and a strong sense of self. The guitar acoustics are light and free, full of that spirit of acceptance. There’s a gossamer line of accordion melody running through the track. Paul’s vocals have both a feeling and thinking quotient to it, that keep coming together. Using soft acoustic chromatism, he ushers the listener into a fresh and grounding space.
ERIC ALEXANDRAKIS – ONE MORE ANGEL [A TRIBUTE TO RAUL MALO]
Eric Alexandrakis is a singer-songwriter and a fluid artist who has this penchant of taking his listeners on a journey. Every theme he picks, he makes a journey out of it. So expressive and so human that it’s impossible not to become a part of it. His latest release is ‘One More Angel (A Tribute to Raul Malo)’, a track where he bids farewell and wishes peace and rest for the soul of American musician, Maverick’s Raul Malo. The artist builds the soundscape, develops it with such vivid and varied instrumentals. He layers them, gives them a playful spirit and lets them leap, dance, ripple and drift through the soundscape. His soulful vocals, feeling all the feelings flows through this frolicking space. The color of the backdrop, combined with the warm energy, passion and heartfelt vocal performance is really moving. By the end of it, you realise that it’s not just a farewell. It’s a celebration of life, of art and of Raul Malo’s artistry.
Fish And Scale – Letter From Paulus
Fish And Scale is German singer-songwriter, Roland Wälzlein making sense of life. His tracks are known for their philosophical and self-reflective notions. Weaving circles of melodies around it, the artist makes it a deep and immersive production. His single, ‘Letter From Paulus’ is an acoustic hyperbole that wanders the expansive spaces of feeling and thinking. The artist beautifully unites light rolling melodies with transient vocal pieces. However, the resonance that he leaves behind every verse lingers across the whole track. Roland sets up so many journeys within the composition. The melodies especially are wandering while also being thoughtful and creative. His vocals run deep with a pervasive tone and a deep calling. Behind the simplicity of the track, there is a lot of silent craft and intimate details.
Joseph Turner & The Dudes of Hazard – Backbone
Joseph Turner & The Dudes of Hazard come in with a playful, engaging and gritty country folk with latest single, ‘Backbone’. The track is full of musical sensibilities that make the song come alive. There’s tactile, melodic, textural and chromatic elements that weave it all in. More than all of that, the atmosphere that that vocals set up is remarkable. It brings that dark country edge and disperses a dynamism to the rest of the sound. The song is soul food. The band digs deep, goes back to that old country lore, that ancient earth and sing tales from that time. Think Colter Wall, The Dead South, and The Devil Makes Three. If you like that dusty, stomping folk-country sound, then you’ll love this track. Or if you’re driving down country roads and want an earthy rhythm to drive with, then this is the track for you.
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