Country, Americana, Folk, Power Pop, Indie Pop
The release of Courtney Marie Andrews’ wonderful album Honest Life is getting closer each day. US release date is August 19th and it comes out on my favorite label Mama Bird Recording Co. Loose Music takes care of UK/Europe in January. A second song from the album surfaced a week or so ago. How Quickly Your Heart Mends might be familiar to you from the Leuven Letters EP, but such a remarkable song deserves to be heard on a proper full-length album.
Big Legal Mess will release Justin Peter Kinkel-Schuster’s (Water Liars) solo album Constant Stranger on 30th of September. Expectations are getting higher and higher all the time. This second outtake Laid Low is even better than the first one and I didn’t have anything to complain about that one either.
Lately I’ve been spinning the new Adam Remnant EP When I Was a Boy. Adam is an Ohio-based songwriter and he used to be the frontman of a great band called Southeast Engine. I had no clue he had a solo release coming out, but thankfully Captains Dead (one of my most trusted music sources) pointed me towards this.
Anyway, When I Was a Boy is out now on Trailer Fire Records and it’s pretty amazing. I’m not entirely sure am I smiling or crying while listening to it, because the struggles of adulthood certainly hits close home. Maybe striked even a bit too close when I was driving home after an 11-hour work shift and the opening lines of this song called There Beside Me started playing in the car stereo.
The real standout track of the EP is still this phenomenal closing song Rewriting Tomorrow. Oh my. This song. Everything about this song.