Anna Ternheim is a singer/songwriter from Stockholm who has just released the album, Leaving On A Mayday. Her music has a dark touch about it which hints at influences from Nick Cave and PJ Harvey.
El Perro del Mar / L-is for love I heard the song Dog a couple of years ago and was quite impressed. I love the production, the way it builds up and how the beat intensifies throughout the piece. At the same time, the song shows a great deal of restraint. It’s cold, hard, dark, and very beautiful.
Vandaveer is the alt-folk song singing/record making/globetrotting project penned and put forth by DC-by-way-of-Kentucky tunesmith Mark Charles Heidinger. The son of a preacher, whose father was a gambler, whose father was both judge and US Congressman, Heidinger one day found himself in possession of a golden pocket watch owned, wound, and regularly counseled by each in this paternal line. On the backside of the watch was a family name engraved, passed down for more than a century like the timepiece that followed. That name was Vandaveer. Vandaveer will release Divide & Conquer through Supply and Demand Music on August 25.
Elvis Perkins / Shampoo This is the first track on Elvis’ new record, and it bites and lurches with intensity. Black is the color of a strangled rainbow, as Perkins rightly points out. Why isn’t a song like this topping the charts? I just don’t get it.
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