Nathan K. – Most Birthdays

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These days we are hardly up-to-date around here, but let’s make an exception and post a new song almost immediately after hearing it. Michigan-based folk singer-songwriter Nathan K. just released the first single from his forthcoming album. I’ve listened to it on repeat for the past half an hour and I think it’s a great song. I Can’t wait to hear the whole thing. You can buy/listen to the new single Most Birthdays on his bandcamp page. And while you are at it, check out his earlier albums Dishes and Newspapers & Prayers. These albums are name-your-price downloads, so you can even get them for free. But that always makes me want to pay a few dollars. So even though I’ve had Dishes on the iPod since the release year, I just paid a couple dollars (well I had a selfish motive and wanted these beautiful records to appear on my Bandcamp collection). Anyway, this is the new Nathan K. single Most Birthdays.

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For All The Girls – 70 Love Songs

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This idea is ludicrous.. in a beautiful way. Every pop band has songs with a name of a girl in the title. So why not make a whole album of them. And well.. if The Magnetic Fields had 69 Love Songs, let’s do one more and call it 70 Love Songs. And because the man behind all this is Drew Danburry, this idea actually somehow makes sense. How did he make that happen?

70 songs is a lot to digest on one go, but there’s a lot to like in here. I’ll put a few great ones below. Listen to / buy it the whole thing on his bandcamp.

For All The Girls / Drew Danburry at Bandcamp

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Gianna Lauren – On Personhood

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Gianna Lauren – On Personhood (Forward Music Group, 2013)

Back to 2013 for a second, because I didn’t find this back then. Canadian label Forward Music Group is one of my favourites and a few of their releases appeared on my end-of-the-year list. This one didn’t, but it might have if I had heard it in time. Gianna Lauren is a Halifax-based singer-songwriter and her latest album On Personhood came out in april 2013. The opening track Trouble sounds a bit like Laura Veirs to me. Which I count as a good thing, because I love Laura (especially July Flame and Carbon Glacier). The rest of On Personhood doesn’t remind me of Laura, but it does sound equally good and addictive. On Personhood is a very strong release. Here are few samples. The already-mentioned Trouble and Anchor Down.

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