Our fifth chapter is the one where we seek, savor, and settle. The muse found us in the depths of raising children, nurturing relationships, surviving a world-changing virus, shifting our mindsets, and discovering a sense of peace heretofore unseen.
Lapell's deft lyrics jostle with love song tropes, grappling with love's finitude and the irony of how codependency and longing are revered in popular music.
Waxahatchee's debut solo album, entitled American Weekend, is a product of a wintry week in Alabama, literally. The 11 songs were recorded in a span of seven days on an 8-track recorder. Katie Crutchfield ya!
The follow-up to Aoife O'Donovan's 3x Grammy nominated album, Age of Apathy, All My Friends is based around a collection of songs Aoife wrote, inspired by women's suffrage and the passage of the 19th amendment.
The Birds Outside Sang is an album about the speed at which rain falls, life goes on, and people grow. It's one part a personal, autobiographical, and almost completely chronological telling of a time in my life full of confusion, loneliness, and hope.
A decade on, the reissue of Holdly and The Birds Outside Sang highlights the origins of that journey, preserving the tenderness and friendship at Florist's core while tracing the roots of a band that continues to evolve with wonder and care.
Abigail Lapell’s Shadow Child LP (lavender eco-mix vinyl) is a spare, intimate nine-song song cycle about pregnancy and early parenthood, with quiet arrangements and guest voices, including the title track featuring Frazey Ford.
A concise LP comp of Bo Diddley’s early singles; 16 tracks including Bo Diddley, I'm a Man, Mona and Road Runner; where his clipped guitar and sly spoken patter announce rock ’n’ roll’s original troublemaker.