Loves It! is Vaughn Walters and Jenny Parrott and last month they released an album titled YAY! The result is a fun listen of folky often upbeat acoustic ruminations on loving & touching, Bobby Kennedy, dinosaurs, and other perhaps more reflective matters.
Another album I’ve been playing lately is The Valery Trails’ debut Ghosts And Gravity, set for release on February 7th. Overall Ghosts And Gravity is an enticing work of mid-fi melodics done up in a grey backdrop of fuzz and jangle topped with skimming vocals. Most importantly the resulting combo of song and sound keeps my attention to the end. Make your own opinion up with a listen below.
San Francisco Bay Area band Howlin Rain will be heading out on tour next month in support of their third full-length album The Russian Wilds. The Russian Wilds will be out on February 14th via American Recordings. Howlin Rain is: Ethan Miller (singer, guitarist), Raj Ojha (drums, percussion), Cyrus Comiskey (bass), Joel Robinow (keyboards, guitar, vocals) and Isaiah Mitchell (guitar, vocals).
American singer-songwriter Walter Rose offers up “Driving South” from his resonating debut album Cast Your Stone, out on January 17th. “Driving South” is a duet with Lucinda Williams and features Eric Heywood (an original member of Son Volt and Grammy-winner with Ray Lamontange) on steel.
tracklisting:
Shift
After All
Where Are Your People?
Visionary
What’s Mine, What’s Yours
Steel In The Groove
Tired of Running
Watertight
Rivers of Blood
Pressure on
Andrew Bird’s twelfth album, Break It Yourself, will be released March 6th on Mom + Pop. Produced by Bird, the album was recorded at his barn in Western Illinois near the banks of the Mississippi River. Break It Yourself follows Bird’s 2009 album Noble Beast.
Bird will support the release of Break It Yourself with a North American tour opening in Texas in March.
Watch a short video preview of the new album here.
Donovan Quinn will release the new LP Honky Tonk Medusa on Valentines Day via Northern Spy. This is the first album that he’s recorded and produced since the Skygreen Leopards’ Life & Love in Sparrow’s Meadow.
