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The Aro duo of husband and wife Charles and Emily Looker here present an immediately and immensely likable album which celebrates native plants and insects in te reo Māori and English language songs which sometimes sound like classic tunes from the Fifties...

Outside of the experimental alt.folk group Big Thief, writer-singer Adrianne Lenker has run a parallel career which is dinstictive and engrossing in its own right.
This album is, at least on paper, her sixth (her previous, the simultaneously released Songs and Instrumentals album turned up in many best of ......

One of the problems which comes with an artist having a distinctive and unique sound is that unless they move it around a bit, that signature becomes so familiar that casual listeners think, “Oh, more of the same”.
That hasn't been too much of a problem for this trio out of Texas whose debut Source: Khruangbin: A La Sala (Dead Oceans/digital outlets)...

One of the most interesting interviews Elsewhere has ever done – and remember, we've done literally many-many hundreds, and then some – was with Howe Gelb.
Best known for his ...
Source: RECOMMENDED REISSUE: Giant Sand: Chore of Enchantment (Fire/digital outlets)...