Adeline Hotel aka Dan Knishkowy has been on my radar for a while and I’ve been pretty close to featuring his earlier releases, but in the end I haven’t. Until now that is, because I’m very fond of his new Will Stratton produced album It’s Alright, Just The Same.

Adeline Hotel takes influence from artists like Bert Jansch, Wilco and The Weather Station and on one occasion he is singing about Big Star. So it sure looks Dan is onto me and makes music that ticks all the right boxes. However, that itself wouldn’t do that much, if he didn’t have his own voice and great song material. There’s no worries whatsoever on that department though. There’s a lot of marvellous songs on the album. This one for example is an absolute beauty. Wonder Why from the new Adeline Hotel album that is now out on Wild Kindness.

Adeline Hotel at Facebook

I had some credit left and picked up downloads of bunch of 2016 albums that I had missed early in the year. Midwest Heart / Southern Blues by Nick Dittmeier and the Sawdusters was one of them and this turned out to be a damn good album. Magnificent gritty americana and southern rock’n’roll. Perhaps I’ve heard something similar several times in the past, but I don’t mind at all. The album is full of great songs and it’s an absolute joy to listen to this one. This is Ever Since You Left Town from the new album.

Nick Dittmeier Website

New Chris Staples album Golden Age will be released by Barsuk Records on August 19th. This first single Relatively Permanent is one of my favourite songs in the world at the moment and therefore I have very high hopes for the new album. Strange how someone can quietly hum a two-minute long tune and instantly it feels memorable and captivating. I can’t wait to hear the whole thing. I also need to get my hands on the previous album American Soft, because now it feels so criminal to not own a copy that I might get sued any day. Meanwhile I listen to this on repeat in my hideout.

Chris Staples Website