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Album Review: Yesway's Self-Tited LP

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The spectres of folk music's past haunt Yesway's self-titled début album. While such a description might serve to paint these newly emergent songwriters as gothic miserablists, these spirits are very much benevolent ones, content to waft with a gleeful fervour out in the open air, before dissolving into dewy embers with the morning's first light. Sounds floa[...]

The Good, The Bad, The Inauthentic: Music of The Midwest-Folk Broken Down

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I'm British, and as such I'm interested in how, with the aid of the net, traditions from overseas have spread and converged with this small island I call home. Halloween is a good example – instead of dressing up as bed-sheet ghouls or plastic vampires, such as we were formerly accustomed to, we now dress up as Kim Kardashian, or Highway 61-era Dylan; such h[...]

The Noises We Make When No One Is Around

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As most likely the most terrifying piece of musical work created, The Noises We Make When No One Is Around oozes deathly echoes, voices screeching in agony as tormented banshees trapped in an intangible existence. The only one thing that comes to mind is that of the “hungry ghost” in Buddhism, one of the six modes of existence with massive, empty stomachs, p[...]

Sean Hayes

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Folk crooner Sean Hayes hums smooth soul with uncomplicated, yet consequential lyrics. He speaks truth in waves with abysmal grooves; loose funk with vintage rasp. With an inimitable voice, as heard in Subaru’s commercial with heavy hitter “Powerful Stuff,” Hayes presents maven compositions, but with an awfully connected, exceedingly genuine touch. He presen[...]

Kaninchen

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Emanating feelings of utter and ultimate grief, Kaninchen delves in the deepest parts of human despondency and brings it to life with overwhelmingly devastating beauty. An assortment of spoken word and simple acoustic melodies, the duo, consisting of Craig Taylor-Broad and Chris Trevena, presents raw, visceral bits of being with a torturous longing; redolent[...]