Beautifully crafted new music today. Alicja Trout of Lost Sounds and River City Tanlines is back with her new band Sweet Knives. After a great new record with Divine Horsemen, Julie Christensen also announces a new solo record with music written by Kevin Gordon. Dave Gahan teamed up with Rich Machin and Ian Glover of Soulsavers for a new exciting record of covers. Julie Doiron from Montreal has a new album. Gabriella Cohen, Doug Tuttle and Camp Cope have new singles. Action City is Michael Slawter and Shawn Lynch and they hail from North Carolina.
Fernando Perdomo – Day After Day;
Sweet Knives – Dont Think Too Much;
Gabriella Cohen – Just For The Summer;
Thalia Zedek Band – Cranes;
Bat Fangs – Action;
Julie Doiron – Et Mon Amour;
Julie Christensen – Find My Way;
Divine Horsemen – Falling Forward;
Kevin Gordon – Find My Way;
Doug Tuttle – Lead Mask;
Dave Gahan and Soulsavers – Not Dark Yet;
Bob Dylan – Not Dark Yet;
Ruby Amanfu – Not Dark Yet;
Camp Cope – Blue;
Action City – Safe and Sound;
The Who – Success Story.
More project than a band, Soulsavers is a musical collective that got head started by electornic music producers Rich Machin and Ian Glover, but has grown into a pure rock’n’roll deal once the American rockers Mark Lanegan and Will Oldham joined in as songwriters and performers. This year’s Broken is their strongest album thus far. It’s great to see that electronic musicians, whatever that means, still keep their interest in pure, live-music-driven rock’n’roll. The highlight of this album is a cover of Gene Clark’s song Some Misunderstanding is a perfect homage to the songwriting rock era of the seventies and one of the greatest albums of that time No Other. Accidentally or not, this is also the only major label album on our year end list!