Eerie Wanda: Pet Town
http://eeriewanda.bandcamp.com/album/pet-town
We do dig our jams around here, the long, weird, noisy and mindbending. But we also appreciate a well-crafted song just as much and thankfully there have been some truly great releases that feature some killer songwriting this winter. We’ll start this week’s batch with Eerie Wanda – the musical name for Dutch/Croatian singer Marina Tadic. Her new album Pet Town is just 10 tracks of magic, a dreamy voice, easygoing melodies and an array of instruments and sounds filling in around her otherworldly lyrics. Pet Town is an album full of relisten-discoveries, one of my favorites of the year so far.
Tiny Ruins: Olympic Girls
https://tinyruins.bandcamp.com/album/olympic-girls
Tiny Ruins are New Zealand singer Hollie Fulbrook and her backing band. Her songwriting is delicate and lush, tales both exotic and all-too-real that you lose yourself in, each like a great short story in the New Yorker that you never want to end and can’t shake for days and weeks after. On their newest release, Olympic Girls, those stories find themselves couched in a rich psych-folk instrumentation, adding another layer of hallucinogenic mindwander to the already superb songs. So good. Enjoy!
Abigail Lapell: Getaway
http://abigaillapell.bandcamp.com/album/getaway
I’ll wrap up this week’s set in Canada (Europe > New Zealand > Canada … this ended up being an unintentional trip around the world, I guess my ears like to roam), with Abigail Lapell, an award-winning, but new-discovery-for-me, folk singer who recently released her third full-length, Getaway. Lapell is a haunting voice with a gorgeous sound, delicate finger-picked guitar and a suite of just-right instruments flesh out her dark-meets-light music. This is lazy Sunday music sunshine on a cloudy day or a bit of a shade when things get too bright, a record that kind of has you constantly doing that who-is-this-again? as each track catches you in a new way. Check it out, I think you’ll dig it!
