Soak in to the intoxicating daze that is Same Old Me, the new single from Geneviève Racette. The award winning singer has flown under the radar while enjoying enviable critical success and communal praise. Industry fans include Matt Kelly from City and Colour, who has invited Racette to open for them several times.
The attention is well earned. Songs like Same Old Me reign timeless with a familiar but undeniable affect. There’s a classic sensibility in a way that blends the aura of Kacey Musgraves with the imaginative pen of Joni Mitchell. We think she’s brilliant.
Same Old Me is featured on our Emerging Folk Playlist.
An expressive guitar vibrates with a candid effortless aura at the opening moments of Time, the first track the new EP from Cam Wilson. Called The Time EP, it’s contents ironically help soften the impact of time itself. There’s a spiritual metaphysical aura known to indie folks first ascent. It blends the exotic candor known to Jose Gonzalez or Hozier with that altered traditional feel known to Damien Rice.
Wilson’s music screams passion in a way that highlights his connection to his feelings in a way that serves his ability to exercise that vulnerability through his music. Meant to be absorbed in one soothing swoop, the four tracks blend together elegantly. Clever production quips break through tastefully, like the sporadic pulsating pump heard on Between the Vines. At the center of every moment sits his trademark guitar, played with a character that helps solidify his signature as an artist. A really gorgeous release that clocks in around 15 minutes, The Time EP is the perfect companion to your breakaway coffee escape. You won’t regret it.
Cam Wilson is featured on our Emerging Folk Playlist.
Spare Room caught our attention with the rare sultry timbre of their lead singer. Their voice suits the moody groovy swing of their new single Honeybee. There’s a mystic magnetism that draws you to her, a tried and true rustic wisdom familiar to the dusty bars and barren plains that call this sound home.
In the spirit of Laurel Canyon style classic rock Honeybee embraces a blend of folk pop and Americana. There’s a hint of Buffalo Springfield and America (the band) colliding with the indie sensibility of Lana Del Rey. Sounds intriguing? It is.
Hear Honeybee now on our Emerging Folk Playlist.
It’s an understated element. The ability for the place, the setting; to alter the aura of the music both in how you hear it and how the performer delivers it. That theory is at the foundation of Sisko Sisko demos, the new release from LA songwriter Mia Loucks. A psychedelic lofi folk pop aesthetic imagines how Billie Eilish might sound if she embraced a sensibility familiar to Magnetic Fields or even Daniel Johnston.
There’s pure charm to Loucks writing, a melodic warmth that feels playful in a way that’s haunting. It’s a testament to her ASMR style hush, with every song offering a chance for her to share a secret she’s protecting from whoever is in the adjacent room. It’s a byproduct of her method, having recorded the EP on an iPhone in untraditional places including cars, airplanes, the beach, and the bathtub. It doesn’t work for everyone, but Loucks is anything but typical. Her music provides some escape and respite from the symptoms related to her reality with systemic sclerosis, a disease she hopes to cure as a current molecular epidemiology student. We adore this project.
Mia Loucks is featured on our Emerging Folk Playlist.
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