Country, Americana, Folk, Power Pop, Indie Pop
The Finnish masters of melodramatic guitar pop Flannelmouth are back in this ball game and released a new single and music video a few weeks ago. The song is called Forgotten Tapes and it was released by Bianca Pop Music. A full-length album should follow later this year. You can buy the single from iTunes and/or watch the video directed by Finn Andersson below.
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The Souvenirs album I Ain’t Happy Yet came out on 30th of August. I had been eagerly waiting for this one since I found them a few months ago. Corinne Gentry, Kiki Buehner, Marie Bradshaw aka The Souvenirs from Salt Lake City already sang their way into my heart on those magnificent albums by Jay William Henderson and Ryan Tanner and now their own album is out and available. I Ain’t Happy Yet is actually produced by Jay William and Ryan, so these people are helping each other out and in a way have released three great records together in just a few months. I haven’t really had much time to listen to The Souvenirs album yet, because I was busy getting married last weekend. The first great excuse I’ve had for not writing the blog. Anyway, based on a few short listening sessions this thing is living up to my extremely high expectations. Beautifully sang vintage country music. Emmylou Harris, early Gillian Welch and that sort of stuff comes to mind. I think this sounds absolutely wonderful, but I can’t agree with that title after marrying the girl of my dreams yesterday and listening to such a great piece of classic country music today. You can listen to / buy this album album at Bandcamp.
I tried so hard not to say that this blog needs a little more cowbell. It looks like I failed miserably. Anyway, tonight I ended up listening to this new Cowbell album that is out now Damaged Goods. Or sometime soon at least. The label website says pre-order, but at least this Spotify thing seem to contain the whole Skeleton Soul album. Cowbell are Jack Sandham & Wednesday Lyle from London and this is just fabulous garage rock’n’roll. Maybe not something that I listen to on a daily basis, but tonight I’m enjoying this wholeheartedly. This one is the opening track Cry Wolf.
Moving on to Australia. I’ve been meaning to post this one for a while, because I think it’s a fantastic song. The High Learys are just getting better all the time and this new single Clear My Mind is just oh so amazing. Such a great band that do this 60s garage, beat, mod, British invasion thing so brilliantly. This is Clear My Mind.
The release of the new Denver album Rowdy love went by without a mention little over a month ago. Better take care of that now then. They are an excellent country band from Portland, Oregon and the new album was released by Mama Bird Recording Co on the 15th of July. This is the opening track Carry On.
This self-titled album by The Slim City Pickers is a brand new one and only came out a few days ago. The Slim City Pickers are a Canadian country rock band from Regina, Saskatchewan. I think I somehow found them through Zachary Lucky if I’m not mistaken. Anyway, the new album is out now and available through their bandcamp and sounds really good to me. This one is About Love from the new The Slim City Pickers album.