Liv Green is more than a queer folk artist who recently toured with Grammy Award winner Sarah Jarosz. The enviable tour spot is very worth of a mention, but Liv Green stands out to us as an intoxicating singer in her own right. Her compositions are lucid too.
Her recent Katie conjures memories of Joni Mitchell’s writing reimagined with Greene’s crippling emotive lush vocal. Like Mitchell, Greene finds the remarkable in a dime store store love story. There’s no Hollywood, there’s no Eiffel Tower, it’s just the feeling you get from someone so true. It’s simply brilliant.
Hear Katie now on our Emerging Folk Playlist.
So you’ve been wondering what happens on Girl Tripping.
Wolftrap chronicles both sides of this experience in their cheeky new single. It’s so damn fun and it’s insanely creative. To immortalize this casual tradition and add a hipster spin on the itinerary is everything we could have hoped for when the title lured us to press play.
If you were hoping for a scandalous narrative, it barely scratches the surface. In exchange you get something real and full of charm. Stylistically it’s a folk pop vibe that blends the realms of Velvet Underground and the Magnetic Zeroes. So cool.
Hear Girl Tripping now on our Emerging Folk Playlist.
A gorgeous performance evolves into a portrait of the artist in the video for Meri Said, the new single from Quiet Takes. The video features the Spruce Street version. It’s bare and true. It’s also more complicated than it seems.
The camera work is impressive, and the clever idea accentuates the dynamic of her character. There’s a metaphor here. It asks, when you close your eyes, where are you? The song is catchy too. We hear an influence of Feist and Sharon Van Etten.
Meri Said is featured on our Emerging Folk Playlist.
There’s something comforting about when the beat drops on Dust over Dunes, the new single from Jeremy Loops. It’s an escape, a sentiment amplified by the singers cover image. The lyrics speak to trials of existential crisis. How did we get here and is there a way out?
“Complicated my whole life, the light of the unknown, it never seems to show.” The contrast and metaphorical twist shines through the subtle island inspired cues. In that way he blends the influence of Paul Simon with an indie folk vibe familiar to Foy Vance. It’s a triumph.
Hear Dust over Dunes now on our Emerging Folk Playlist.
The Wild Is Calling 