Clint Michigan is a project by NYC songwriter Clint Asay. I originally found them when Slowcoustic premiered the Coeur d’Alene video something like five years ago and I’ve held them close to my heart ever since. I love Clint and I also love his adorable cats and the bond they have together. Therefore I’m thrilled that Clint Michigan has a new album Centuries coming out on the 27th of April on Kiam Records. I’m sure it’s going to be a poignant but comforting thing of beauty and something that everyone should hear. The brilliant first single/video Knickerbocker Street from the forthcoming album surfaced a few days ago and I’ve listened to it more times than I can count.

And here’s also my Clint Michigan introduction Coeur d’Alene that I mentioned above, because I still love both the song and the video.

Clint Michigan Website

A week ago I purchased a download of the new Jesse Marchant album Illusion of Love that came out on the 26th of January. If the name doesn’t ring a bell, Jesse Marchant is a Canadian songwriter who released some great indie folk records as JBM between 2009 and 2012. Illusion of Love is his second under his own name and it’s a real treasure that ranges from the atmospheric indie folk of those old JBM records all the way to beautiful Strand of Oaks-like sonic monsters. Here’s a couple of magnificent outtakes from the new album.

Jesse Marchant Website

Sarah Shook & The Disarmers are a great country band from North Carolina and they will have a new album Years out on Bloodshot Records on the 6th April. I’m really looking forward to this because their 2015 album Sidelong (that Bloodshot re-released in 2016) was already pretty damn impressive. It sounds like they’ve gotten even better since then and the first outtake Good As Gold from the forthcoming album is just utterly marvellous. I can’t wait to hear the album in a few months. Here’s the lyric video for Good as Gold. More about Sarah Shook & The Disarmers closer to the release date of the album.

Sarah Shook & the Disarmers Website