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Black Belt Eagle Scout: The Land, The Water, The Sky
New album: A heartfelt, visceral, both powerful and gentle LP by the Swinomish/Iñupiaq singer-songwriter Katherine Paul inspired by her 2020 journey to her ancestral lands from Portland to the Skagit River on Puget Sound in Washington State
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Andy Shauf: Norm
New album: Following 2020’s The Neon Skyline, the Canadian singer-songwriter returns with beautiful, crisp, meticulous folk-pop, filled with narrative, clever philosophy and his delicate, engaging, falsetto voice
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Turning of the seasons: Complete Mountain Almanac
New album: A uniquely beautiful, complex, layered project of 12 monthly releases created by Stockholm-based singer/songwriter Rebekka Karijord and the poet, artist and dancer Jessica Dessner, who also brings her younger brothers Aaron and Bryce of The National
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Meg Baird’s fourth solo album, Furling, and her first for nearly eight years
New album: A exquisitely beautiful return by the San Francisco-based Americana singer-songwriter with her first solo album since 2015’s Don’t Weigh Down the Light, offering a gorgeous set of stripped back songs of stillness and sensitivity
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Margo Price: Strays
New album: Country, pop, rock psych, and blues all merge seamlessly in this fabulous, defiant, soaring new LP by the Nashville star who wrote these 10 songs, after a six-day magic mushroom session with husband/collaborator Jeremy Ivey
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Caitlin Rose: CAZIMI
New album: Beautiful melancholy, emotive Americana-folk-country-indie-pop crossover by the Nashville-based singer a new set of songs about self-destruction, documenting proclivity and impulse control, bad habits in life and in romantic pursuits
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Sylvie, the self-titled new album that channels the sounds of 70s Laurel Canyon
New album: Beautiful retro 70s-style Laurel Canyon folk and Americana by the band formed by South California’s Ben Schwab of Drugdealer and Golden Daze, inspired by finding lost tapes of his father John’s 1970s group Mad Anthony
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Wild Pink return with ILYSM
New album: A fourth particularly fine, tender, emotional LP in only five years by the New York indie rock band fronted by singer-songwriter John Ross, with a theme, as the title suggests of loving very much, with some powerful and poignant moments, and broader experimental sounds
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Plains on the roadside: Katie Crutchfield and Jess Williamson
New album: A high-quality classic country duet album with beautifully interweaving vocals by Katie Crutchfield (aka Waxahatchee) and Texas songwriter Jess Williamson embellished with soft-brushed drums, banjo, steel guitar, road and porch scenes, and heartbreak
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Bill Callahan’s new album’s YTILAER plays mischief with search engines
New album: Dreams, horses, darkness and uplifting otherworldliness feature in this wonderful, mischievously mirror-titled ninth LP under the Smog artists’s own name, pouring out velvet voiced beauty, vivid lines, deadpan humour, acoustic intimacy and full band momentum
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Jake Blount
New album: After his acclaimed 2020 solo debut Spider Tales, the American bluegrass fiddler, banjo player, Afrofuturist and historian returns with a starkly beautiful, atmospheric album drawing on old spiritual numbers and set in a climate-changed, apocalyptic world
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Delicately melancholy: Cass McCombs’ Heartmind
New album: This tenth LP by the American folk, psych and alt-country singer-songwriter brings songs of perfect, effortless poise and weight, with touching, melancholy, moving, philosophical tales of musicians and soldiers, karaoke machines and fast-food restaurants, and is dedicated to departed musicians Chet JR White, Sam Jayne and Neal Casal
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Amanda Shires: taking no prisoners
New album: Stirring, potent folk-country-power-pop by the Texan singer-songwriter and violinist and Highwomen founder, who on this 10th solo album extends her stylistic repertoire with orchestral and almost Radiohead-like guitar atmospherics alongside her expressive, emotive voice
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Tender and low key: Florist by Florist
New album: After 2019’s Emily Alone when Brooklyn singer songwriter Emily Sprague recorded the LP on her own, the band four-piece reunite for a beautiful lo-fi indie folk 16-track album of tenderness, rough edges, woozy sounds and rainy porch acoustic
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Katy J Pearson’s second album, Sound Of The Morning
New album: The Bristol singer’s second album, packed with strong numbers, sees her developing her range from Americana and country styles to indie and synthpop, moving from the tender to the uptempo, her voice at times echoing the voice of Stevie Nicks
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Joan Shelley: The Spur
New album: Pure of voice, with gently acoustic accompaniment, perfectly weighted melody and perceptive lyric, a gorgeous new ninth album by the Kentucky folk musician, including a number with Bill Callahan
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Laura Veirs comes out of a darkness
New album: Sensitive, quirky, melancholy, intimate, candid, and wonderfully beautiful folk-pop by the Portland singer-songwriter dappled with acoustic instruments and arresting lines is her 12th, but first LP after splitting from her husband and longtime producer
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Fern Maddie: Ghost Story
Debut album: Terrific first LP by the Vermont singer-songwriter, guitarist and banjo player who draws influence from English, Irish and Scottish folk who has a talent for poignant lyrics, beautiful playing and a quiet, but striking voice
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Jessie Buckley and Bernard Butler: For All Our Days That Tear The Heart
New album: An outstanding collaboration between the Irish actress and singer and the former Suede guitarist with this beautiful album of passionate, dramatic, folk music of various international styles, with all the added depth, subtlety, dynamism of emotional power of both Jeff Buckley and Joni Mitchell
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Wilco’s double album, Cruel Country
New album: With a double-edged title referring to both style and content, the Chicago band return with a strong, 21-track double album of country-edged music brimful with fine melodies, melancholy but sharply pointed lyrics
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