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Kent Goolsby and the Gold Standard & The Deslondes

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The new Kent Goolsby & The Gold Standard album No Substitute for Handsome came out on the 7th of July. I’ve been digging this a lot during the past month. The songs are the finest Kent Goolsby has written and the record has certain old-timey charm that’s completely irresistible. This is a wonderful song Outskirts of Love from the new album. Extremely highly recommended.

Kent Goolsby & The Gold Standard Website

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Next up is The Deslondes from New Orleans whose self-titled debut on New West Records is filled with truly enjoyable down-to-earth country soul. I wasn’t entirely sure after just hearing the song The Real Deal and I’m still not completely into that song in particular. Thankfully pretty much everything else is rather awesome, so I don’t have any complaints. It’s a mighty fine album as a whole. I especially dig these slow-paced ones that almost seem lazy and effortless, but still somehow find my heart faster than I can say “bad analogy”. This is Slow Down Soul.


The Deslondes Website

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Brack Cantrell – Glancing Blow & GospelbeacH – Pacific Surf Line

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I’ve been enjoying this album by Brack Cantrell during the last couple of days. He is from Denton, Texas and that’s pretty much everything I know about him. Ok, I’ve done some research and found some stuff under the name Glass Caverns that also sounds mighty good. Anyway, this new solo album is called Glancing Blow and it’s available on his Bandcamp. Indie rock meets psych pop and a bit of ambient soundscapes as well. This is the excellent first single Corpus Christi.

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The whole west coast Beachwood Sparks, The Tyde etc thingy is very dear to me. I’ve listened to all those bands a lot. The self-titled Beachwood Sparks album is one of my all time favourites and songs like The Reminder and Canyon Ride will always be a part of who I am. Therefore I’m really interested about Brent Rademaker’s new group GospelbeacH. It’s pretty much an all-(should-be)star cast otherwise as well. Neal Casal, Kip Boardman, Jason Soda, Tom Sanford and apparently also power pop guru Nelson Bragg making guest appearances. The album Pacific Surf Line is out later in the fall on Alive Records, but here’s the first outtake Sunshine Skyway.

GospelbeacH at Facebook

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Little Wings – Explains & Hezekiah Jones – In Loving Memory of oosi Lockjaw

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The music I love the most tonight. Little Wings and Hezekiah Jones. First we have Little Wings. I’m pretty ashamed to say that I started to listen to Kyle Field aka Little Wings like an hour ago. What the hell have I been doing all these years, because this is already his 11th full-length album. Well better late than never and all the other cliches. Anyway, this latest one called Explains came out on the outstanding Woodsist Records a few months back. I’ve only listened to it once when I write this, but oh man. It was an instant affection and I loved every second of it. Kind of like the poppiest Lambchop or more sing-y Bill Callahan, if you want some awful descriptions of amazing music. I need to buy a copy asap. This is the stunning opening track By Now.

Little Wings Website

hezekiah

The new Hezekiah Jones album In Loving Memory of oosi Lockjaw isn’t officially out until November, but the pledgers already got the download a week or so ago. I will get back to this in a few months time, but I wanted to give an early shout-out about the greatness of it. This Philly-based folk collective led by Raphael Cutrufello have created their finest album and it’s one of my top 5 2015 releases at the moment. I’ve spent countless amount of hours listening to it during the past week. This one below is Borrowed Heart. It has been been a classic in this household for a few years already and finally it will appear on a record as well.

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Hezekiah Jones Website

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Joey Ryan & The Inks, The Needy Sons & Cape Snow

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It’s been a while. I didn’t really plan on neglecting the blog for several weeks, but my body is still a total wreck and therefore the only goal I had for the last month was to just somehow get through each day. But now I’m finally on a three week holiday and I try to spend it on the thing I love the most, which is listening to new music. I will also have that cervical spine MRI done in a few weeks time and hopefully that will finally tell me what’s causing the continuous numbness on my left hand/leg. I sure would love to know. Anyway, here are some new songs that I really like. More to come very soon.

First we have a great new pop song from Joey Ryan & The Inks. I don’t know how have I managed to miss such a good american pop band for this long. After all, if you want a list of most used tags on my heart, #pop, #catchy, #60s pop, #sunshiny pop, #westcoast, all rank quite close to the top. Anyway, this is their new single Microscope and it’s an outtake from their forthcoming album due out later in 2015.

Joey Ryan and The Inks Website

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Next up is The Needy Sons and their debut single The Swimmer​ /​ Superficial Kid. I’ve been a big fan of Bill Janovitz since the 90s. Buffalo Tom is a special band, but it’s not just that. For example that Bill Janovitz and Crown Victoria album Fireworks on TV! is a way-too-unknown masterpiece (at least in this corner of the world). Anyway, Bill Janovitz has a new band called The Needy Sons that also features Mike Gent from The Figgs and Ed Valauskas and Eric Anderson. This is The Swimmer by The Needy Sons. I can’t wait to hear more.

The Needy Sons/Bill Janovitz at Bandcamp

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And let’s end this little blog post by something truly beautiful. Cape Snow’s debut album just came out on Burst & Bloom Records. I really love this first outtake One More Time. Unfortunately I haven’t heard anything else yet, but if the rest of it is equally good, I will be mesmerized. I probably should just take a leap of faith and buy it just based on this one amazing song. This falls somewhere between Mazzy Star and The Delines and if one has to fall, it would be hard to pick a better place. This is One More Time.

Cape Snow at Bandcamp

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