New Music 2021

Radical Face - Under The Same Sun

This is the final song for this first "Hidden Hollow" EP. For those of you that don't know what that means, "Hidden Hollow" is the name of my monthly newsletter, where I include all these one-off recordings that I've been making, as well as share lots of book, art and media recommendations. You can sign up for the newsletter here, if that sounds interesting to you: www.hiddehollow.online

And to be totally clear, none of these tracks are related to my new album. That is a much larger project, which will begin this year. I'll make a video explaining it all, because I never do anything simple and the record has spiraled into a 30 song multi-media project. Ha.

As for this track, this one is a throwback of sorts. It's a riff on another song of mine (guess which?). The chord/picking pattern was originally something for the Family Tree project, but I never used it. The chords popped up out of the blue last month, so I just rolled with them, started tracking, and this is where I wound up. This whole "Hidden Hollow" series has been about not overthinking anything very much and finishing songs quickly. To be honest, I prefer overthinking -- I love details -- but I have appreciated the change of pace.


The full EP can be downloaded free here if you like his music
 
Didn't like this when I started listening to it but I stuck with it and it got me by the end.

Thad Cockrell - Slow & Steady (Official Live Session)


There is a great story on Paste about this guy. That said I'm not struck on the song they are talking about.

Thad Cockrell’s “Swingin’” skyrocketed to #1 on iTunes after a light switch broke in New York City.

Jimmy Fallon heard the Nashville singer’s song inside of a hardware store while looking to replace the switch that had gone out in his home, and fell in love with the track. His quest to book Cockrell on The Tonight Show would turn out to be a case of divine timing—only the day before, Cockrell had told his managers he was ready to step away from music and pursue another career.


Anyway here is a live session version of Swingin' and also a solo acoustic version of Slow & Steady


 
That William Loveday stuff is bizarre, brilliant but bizarre. Essentially Billy Childish revisiting his earlier canon in the style of Dylan?

As above probably listening to more older stuff than new at present but Buck Meek, Pom Poko and Goat Girl have all caught my attention so far this year.

Black Country, New Road debut out on Friday as well if you like your music in the "too difficult to categorise" category.
 
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