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On Deck: Renée Reed tells us about five formative albums in her life

Rob HakimianMarch 22, 2021

Louisiana-based Cajun-American songwriter Renée Reed is releasing her debut album Renée Reed this Friday via Keeled Scales. It's an album that honours her Caju...

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Album Review: Karima Walker – Waking the Dreaming Body

Rob HakimianMarch 1, 2021

All elements of life come from stars – billions of years’ worth of galactic dust being re-processed and re-formed as Carbon, Helium, Hydrogen and everything el...

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Album Review: Katy Kirby – Cool Dry Place

Kyle KohnerFebruary 24, 2021

Texas may be enduring a cold storm, but its very own Katy Kirby has arrived with a heartwarming debut album that is here to melt the dreadfully frigid days awa...

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Renée Reed takes us on a fantastical walk in the woods on “Où est la fée”

Rob HFebruary 16, 2021

Louisiana songwriter Renée Reed's self-titled debut album is coming out at the end of March, and following on from recent single "Fast One" she has today share...

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Karima Walker finds a place of peace and elation on “Waking The Dreaming Body”

Rob HFebruary 16, 2021

Karima Walker is releasing her new album next Friday, February 26, and so far we've heard the beautiful "Reconstellated" and "Horizon, Harbor Resonance". Today...

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Katy Kirby contemplates motherhood on the searching “Juniper”

Rob HJanuary 19, 2021

With her debut album Cool Dry Place out in a month, Katy Kirby has shared another teaser before we get to hear the whole thing. Following on from the brillianc...

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Album Review: Buck Meek – Two Saviors

Carlo ThomasJanuary 19, 2021

It’s impossible to remove Buck Meek’s solo work from the context of Big Thief. Following a marathon 2018 with the Brooklyn-based band, consisting of two record...

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Interview: Buck Meek – “Writing these songs was a process of understanding my own capacity for resiliency and transcendence above loss”

Carlo ThomasJanuary 13, 2021

Buck Meek, best known for being a member of Big Thief, tells us all about his gorgeous new album Two Saviors...

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Louisiana songwriter Renée Reed announces debut album with the cutting “Fast One”

Rob HJanuary 13, 2021

Renée Reed is a Lafayette, Louisiana songwriter who is described as "unselfconsciously Cajun," and in her previous two singles has already proven to be a capti...

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Karima Walker takes us drifting down the Rio Grande on exquisite ambient track “Horizon, Harbor Resonance”

Rob HJanuary 12, 2021

Karima Walker recently revealed that she's got a new album called Waking the Dreaming Body coming out in February, and shared the delicate and heartbreaking "R...

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