2015 is in full speed, but it looks like One Chord to Another is still in slow motion. Better step on that gas pedal right now and really get into these new releases during the next few days and weeks. Andrew Bryant’s This is The Life is an album that I’ve been really into during the past week. You may know him from the excellent Water Liars, but apparently the man also makes rather amazing solo albums. I haven’t listened to his earlier material, but this new one surely sounds magnificent to me. This Is The Life is now out on Sleep Recordings. Here are couple of mighty good examples and these aren’t even the best songs on the record if you ask me. Losing My Shit and video for the song called The Free.

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Andrew Bryant Website

The new Small Houses album Still Talk; Second City drops into our hearts on the 10th of February. HearYa has an exclusive premiere going on, so hit that link if you want to hear the whole beautiful thing a week early. I will get back to this later in February when it’s out there and available, but here are couple of great tracks from the forthcoming album:

Music video for the lead single Staggers and Rise

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Seventeen in Roselore that features the always amazing Samantha Crain on backing vocals

Small Houses Website

There’s a lot of wonderful 2015 releases already out there. For example yesterday was a rather good day. Finnish singer-songwriter Klasu released his debut single (we will get to that in a few days) and a long time Canadian favourite of mine Marine Dreams released a new album called Producer’s Wonderland. Ian Kehoe is a very prolific songwriter and seem to release a full-length every year. I still wasn’t expecting a new one so soon, but I was pleasantly surprised when I saw it pop up on my Bandcamp feed and instantly bought a digital copy. I kept on listening to it for several hours today and it’s certainly another great addition to his catalogue. This man just writes unique pop music with addictive melodies. This thing is actually out of my normal comfort zone with programmed drums, disco-ish vibes etc.. I don’t know how Ian does it, but somehow Marine Dreams manages to turn things I don’t normally care for into something that I love wholeheartedly. This is Polished Stone from the new album. You can buy it as a cassette from You’ve Changed Records Website or the digital copy for really fair price of 5 CAD (or more) from You’ve Changed Records Bandcamp page.

Marine Dreams at Facebook
You’ve Changed Records Website