I had a couple of hours to write the blog, but somehow I just wasn’t able to start and now it’s too late, because it’s 1 am and dayjob is already lurking behind the corner. To not let the evening be complete waste, I’ll do a quick video post. I shortly wrote about the beautiful Hand Habits album Wildly Idle (Humble Before The Void) back in February when it came out on Woodsist, but I still haven’t posted the video of magnificent album outtake Book on How To Change. A reason to revisit the album is that next month there’s time to write those pointless end of the year lists and therefore I’ve been going through the albums I’ve fallen in love with during the year. Hand Habits album fall into that category. This is one of the highlights of the album.
A couple of wonderful new things from the Mama Bird vaults. I’ve probably said it several times, but Portland-based Mama Bird Recording Co. has been the dearest record label to me during the past five years. It all started when I heard the first Barna Howard album and it has been all love ever since. I can wholeheartedly recommend pretty much everything they’ve ever released. Personal favorites are both Barna Howard albums, Honest Life by Courtney Marie Andrews and Not So Deep As A Well by Myriam Gendron. I would like to go on, but maybe I leave it that, because I guess it would be a little silly to list them all as favorites.
Let’s move on to the new music from the Mama Bird family. First we have Taylor Kingman who is getting ready to release his debut album on 17th of November. I don’t know a whole lot about him yet, but I’ve really liked both songs I’ve heard so far. Title track Wannabe earlier and now this one below called My Lover’s Bed that actually reminds me a bit of another Mama Bird artist Vikesh Kapoor. This is pretty much favorite song right now along with every song on the new The Weather Station and Twain albums. I’m looking forward to hearing the album next week.
The incredible Haley Heynderickx is also getting ready to release an album on Mama Bird Recording Co. It carries a title I Need to Start a Garden and will hit our hearts sometime in early 2018. The excellent first single Oom Sha La La is already out and available and they also made a music video for it.
Just a quick video post. Canadian Taylor Knox dropped his debut album into our hearts back in June. I still haven’t posted the latest music video for excellent album outtake Stars, so better get that one out of the way and so I can take one of those guilt daggers off my back . I have placed quite a collection back there, because I neglected the blog for months and feel bad about it. Anyway, this is Stars from the new Taylor Know album Love.
I think this new Phoebe Bridgers album has been quite well covered by the proper music media and therefore there’s not that big of a need to write about on this little blog. I kind of try to focus on the artists that nobody else covers in this country, because I’m a horribly bad writer and don’t feel like I could offer a remotely interesting angle to these fairly well received releases. However, Stranger in the Alps by Phoebe Bridgers is so phenomenal, riveting and beautiful that I have to briefly tell the world or the 23 regular readers that I love the album. I first heard her name when PAX AM released her 7”, but didn’t really properly start listening until my twitter feed started getting crowded with praises in early 2017. They were so right. She is amazing. This is Smoke Signals from her new album that is out now on Dead Oceans.
