Country, Americana, Folk, Power Pop, Indie Pop
Big Legal Mess will release Justin Peter Kinkel-Schuster’s (Water Liars) solo album Constant Stranger on 30th of September. Expectations are getting higher and higher all the time. This second outtake Laid Low is even better than the first one and I didn’t have anything to complain about that one either.
Lately I’ve been spinning the new Adam Remnant EP When I Was a Boy. Adam is an Ohio-based songwriter and he used to be the frontman of a great band called Southeast Engine. I had no clue he had a solo release coming out, but thankfully Captains Dead (one of my most trusted music sources) pointed me towards this.
Anyway, When I Was a Boy is out now on Trailer Fire Records and it’s pretty amazing. I’m not entirely sure am I smiling or crying while listening to it, because the struggles of adulthood certainly hits close home. Maybe striked even a bit too close when I was driving home after an 11-hour work shift and the opening lines of this song called There Beside Me started playing in the car stereo.
The real standout track of the EP is still this phenomenal closing song Rewriting Tomorrow. Oh my. This song. Everything about this song.
Darrin Bradbury will release his new album Elmwood Park: A Slightly Melodic Audiobook on 9th of September. He is a great songwriter and storyteller from East Nashville. Besides the songs I highly recommend his recent blog entry called Sudden realizations, my dog has zero clue I’m a songwriter. It sure made me smile. Anyway, this is an early shout out about the forthcoming album that is most likely wonderfully. I’ll get back to this once I’ve heard the album. This is Darrin Bradbury’s marvelous new song Counting On Love.
I don’t think I’ve ever posted this video of Erin Rae & The Meanwhiles singing Monticello and that just isn’t right. It’s my favourite song from their excellent Soon Enough album that came out last year in the states. I bought it back then, but it’s also now officially out in the UK/Europe on the great UK-based americana/country label Clubhouse Records. There’s also UK tour coming up in the fall. So don’t miss that, if you live in the area. Finnish folks like yours truly just have to settle at jealously mirroring their sad face from the bottom of the whiskey glass while listening to this beautiful song. Erin Rae & The Meanwhiles and Monticello.