Louien’s rich orchestral folk heats the body like a roaring campfire on a cool autumn evening: Her debut album None of My Words is a gorgeous, immersive experience full of beautifully melodic instrumentals, heartfelt and emotional vocals, and fresh, uninhibited passion.
Atwood Magazine is proud to be premiering None of My Words, out September 20, 2019 via Norway’s Jansen Records.
Indie outfit Van Plating looks beyond the idea of soulmates to examine the importance of various types of love and relationships on “Standing Still,” the latest from the new recording project between Florida-based singer-songwriter Rachel Plating and writing partner Bradley Walden.
The breezy, country-tinged indie pop song will appeal to fans of Kacey Musgraves’ Golden Hour and Jenny Lewis’ On the Line.
As project mastermind Juri Jinnai puts it, the art pop project Emergency Tiara is all about “exploring what’s been suppressed.” Through bubbly, doo-wop inspired music, the Tokyo-born/New York-based musician seeks to express the things her various cultural experiences have long told her to keep at bay. READ MORE…
Well, Australia’s loss was certainly Nashville’s gain. Josh Rennie-Hynes, now a naturalized Americana singer-songwriter and one of the finest melodic guitarists I’ve heard in some time, is a keeper. Josh has just released “Caught in a Dream” from his new LP “Patterns” which we will all get to possess come September 27.
First released in 1989, Shawn Colvin’s album, Steady On,was an auspicious debut, the arrival of a new voice in American singer-songwriter circles. Continuing a tradition forged by the likes of Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, and Jackson Browne, the album contained songs such as “Shotgun Down the Avalanche”, “Diamond in the Rough”, and “Something to Believe In”, songs that demonstrated Colvin’s ability to reveal fully-formed characters whose struggles and triumphs were both familiar and intriguing.
Artist: Karen & The Sorrows
Hometown: New York City
Song: “It Ain’t Me”
Album: Guaranteed Broken Heart
Release Date: October 18, 2019
In Their Words: “I like to say The Sorrows are a full-service heartbreak band. I write songs for all kinds of sad situations! This one is for when your ex first starts seeing someone new, and you can’t stop wondering if they’ll love that new person in all the ways they couldn’t love you.