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September 18, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Joan Shelley: Like The River Loves The Sea
Joan Shelley Like The River Loves The Sea No Quarter Records Over a half-dozen albums across the last decade Joan Shelley has refined her sound and perfected the craft of subtly confessional songwriting – nothing jarring at all here in the simple instrumentation and gorgeous singing. But look beneath the beautiful poetic worlds (“A haven […]Archive
February 4, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Tiny Ruins: Olympic Girls
Tiny Ruins Olympic Girls Ba Da Bing! Where the first two full-lengthers and EPs felt like Tiny Ruins was merely the name of a project to house the songs of the very talented Hollie Fullbrook, the proof of the live shows has been the slow-simmering of Tiny Ruins The Band – its members fully integrating across the records to date to arrive now, together […]Archive
August 5, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
LUMP: LUMP
LUMP LUMP Dead Oceans LUMP is a duo comprised of singer/songwriter Laura Marling and Mike Lindsay from the alt-folk combo, Tunng. They met at a gig, or the afterparty of a gig, and hatched a plan to work together. Marling has made a half-dozen perfect/near-perfect albums – time for a change; extend the palette, do […]Archive
November 23, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Laura Marling: Semper Femina
Laura Marling Semper Femina Sony Music Canada Inc. Laura Marling’s output is extraordinary – 27 years old, six albums to date, all of them great. Each one building on the one before it. No mistakes. No duds. And though the first three sit in a straight line (and that’s not a criticism) from there her […]Archive
August 20, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 6: Joan Baez – “Joan Baez”
Here we go – into the sixties – 1960 in fact. There are quite a few albums from this decade I haven’t heard – but I’m gonna guess that in most cases I’m familiar with the artist; largely due to the plethora of greatest hits compilations. In the late 1980s when the first real 60s […]Archive
July 17, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Courtney Marie Andrews: Honest Life
Courtney Marie Andrews Honest Life Fat Possum It’s forever a case of break out the comparisons when writing about female singer/songwriters – I’m guilty of it, as well as being critical of it – but sometimes those comparisons stand up and usually they’re meant as a compliment; to that end it’s impossible not to hear […]Archive
March 16, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Five Songs For Friday: # 8 – Recent Finds and Reminders; Things I’ve Been Appreciating…
So it’s a Five For Friday with no real theme – if there is one it’s there in the title, these songs – old and new – have all been on my mind and on the turntable over the last couple of weeks. Songs that standout on new releases, or old records I’ve just picked […]Archive
November 28, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: #172 – Laura Marling, Auckland, 2015
I don’t really need to be writing about this gig again – so soon – because I wrote enough about it here (and it was very recent; still a recent – decent – memory) but I loved it so much and the real reason I’m adding it to the ‘stubs’ file so soon is because […]Archive
October 26, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: Laura Marling (October 23, Akld)
Laura Marling The Powerstation, Auckland Friday, October 23 Laura Marling’s latest album, Short Movie, is fantastic – but you could be worried she didn’t think so, barely choosing from it to fill her first headlining gig in New Zealand. Instead, Marling chose a range of songs from her five albums to date, and a couple […]Archive
October 20, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Laura Marling: Short Movie
Laura Marling Short Movie Ribbon Music/LLC Laura Marling is 25. She has five albums to her name – I mention her age only because she seemed to arrive, fully formed, talk of her still being a teenager was unavoidable when addressing the very early work. Because it had a maturity – and sense of style/song-structure […]Archive
June 24, 2015 by Simon Sweetman