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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...

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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Buck Meek shares the careworn country gem “Candle”

Rob HJanuary 7, 2021

Buck Meek is releasing his new solo album Two Saviors next Friday, January 15, and this week he has shared one final teaser. "Candle" was co-written with his B...

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Katy Kirby re-evaluates her vulnerabilities on the sweeping “Cool Dry Place”

Rob HDecember 8, 2020

Just a couple of weeks ago we brought you the whimsically sardonic "Traffic!" from Texan songwriter Katy Kirby, and she's already back with another glimpse of ...

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Karima Walker shares the delicate desire “Reconstellated” and details new album

Rob HDecember 1, 2020

Arizona-based songwriter Karima Walker has announced the follow-up to her 2017 debut album: it's called Waking the Dreaming Body and comes out on February 26 v...

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Katy Kirby puts down gloom mongers on the infectious “Traffic!”, announces debut album

Rob HNovember 19, 2020

Texan songwriter Katy Kirby has emerged this year showing plenty of promise with the single "Tap Twice" and a collaborative EP with Karima Walker, Among Horses...

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Big Thief’s Buck Meek delivers the transcendent daydream “Pareidolia”

Rob HNovember 17, 2020

Buck Meek, guitarist and co-songwriter in Big Thief, is releasing a new solo album called Two Saviors on January 15. Following on from "Second Sight", which wa...

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