Led by songwriter Matthew Kenneally, Canary are known for producing indie pop that is steeped in gorgeous melodies, intelligent instrumentation and an ever curious approach. Canary emerge once more from the studio, armed with material primed for their forthcoming third album. Also featuring the stunning UK folk duo Hannah Sanders/Ben Savage, the dreamy melancholy of Adrianne Lenker and the fantastic solo debut from Nick Craft (ex-Sidewinder).
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Portland artist Anna Tivel creates wide-eyed celestial folk with a confessional edge. She has a wonderful new single out ahead of her album next year and we’ll feature that on this edition of the podcast. As well, William Elliot Whitmore who can seamlessly meld country, blues, folk, and punk together, he does this with aplomb on his new collection of covers, Kilonova. Plus bouncy electronic Afrofuturistic pop from Onipa, the excellent new release from the Yowo Music collective – dedicated to nurturing/encouraging high school aged girls and GNC youth and much more.
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Inspired by the hours spent on travelling on tour and all the isolated landscapes he encountered, Canadian composer Cédric D. Lavoie’s 88 was composed on the piano with bowed and plucked upright basses, some discrete percussion and sound effects. 88 is Cédric D. Lavoie’s first album for Preserved Sound and our featured work on this edition of the Quiet Space. As well the excellent new Yamaneko release on Longform Editions plus Panoptique Electrical, Ben Chatwin and more….
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James Murray is a composer specialising in minimal electronic and electroacoustic music. His recordings have been issued by respected labels worldwide since 2004 and often have strong conceptual themes inviting personal or emotional reflection. Our focus is on his most recent release, Landscape of Lovers. Romantic music can fall into saccharine, soppy, and sickly-sweet traps, but on this release Murray eschews and avoids these dangerous tropes, instead honing in on and finding the essence of love, and of what it means to love.
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From Modern Bossa to Doo-Wop to Dream Pop to Folk, welcome to another 1234. Excellent new music from Victory Lap, the Zela Margossian Quintet, Beach House and Piroshka.
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