Tag archive for ‘folk’
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Feist “Metals” [Album Review]
When Feist first came on the scene in 2004 with Let It Die featuring the adorable video for “Mushaboom,” I was enraptured. I proverbially wore down the Mp3s in my colorless-screened first generation iPod. The balance of soul, femininity and melody was like an optimistic Cat Power with the same swirling soundtrack riffs characteristic of Broken Social [...]
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[Video] Villagers at La Maroquinerie
Villagers’ performance at La Maroquinerie in Paris is a fantastic hour long set perfect for listening while working. Featuring several track from their 2010 debut release on Domino Records, Becoming a Jackal, their folk rock performance is soothing, then gripping, and melodically entrancing. Check out this live review of Villagers of their performance at The Rickshaw Stop. Below [...]
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[Video] Bon Iver – ‘Holocene’
I fully realize I’ve already put up a video of Bon Iver’s ‘Holocene’ (from Fallon this summer) but, as it’s no longer online, I will use that as my excuse to post the official video. But if I didn’t have that excuse I’d say that one of the best songs of the year needs to be put up [...]
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[Stream] New Beirut Album “The Rip Tide”
Beirut’s soon to be released album (August 30th), The Rip Tide, is available to stream thanks to NPR. If “Santa Fe” is any indicator of the album, which for unfamiliar fans–Beirut makes album surrounding theme, this album is bright, summery, music. If you’re hoping to catch him on tour, check below for his tour dates. Tour Dates Wed. [...]
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[Album Review] Fleet Foxes “Helplessness Blues”
Yesterday, Fleet Foxes officially released their album Helplessness Blues. Rooted in soft folk melodies with finger style plucking guitar progressions, the group’s pop sensibility seems stronger than their self-titled debut with tracks like “Montezuma” and “Grown Ocean.” The albums combines well-tailored singles with longer (over four minutes) non-conventional tracks like “The Shrine/An Argument” or “The Plains/ Bitter Dancer.” [...]
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[Album Stream] Cass McComb’s “Wit’s End”
Cass McCombs at thirty-four sings likes a man twice his age worn from the struggles of life. Today marks the release of WIT’S END on Domino Records. The album was made available for streaming today, which we’ve included with the first single, “County Line.” Described on his Soundcloud page as conjuring “the colors purple and black” the image [...]
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James Vincent McMorrow [Interview and Playlist]
James Vincent McMorrow is often quickly compared to Bon Iver. His similar folk sound was crafted like Bon Iver in a remote house surrounded in natured. So much has been made of this comparison that SFCritic thought it best to get to know James Vincent McMorrow based on the man behind his praised debut album, Early In The [...]
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[Remixes] Bon Iver & Matt Kim
“It’s the remix BITCH!” Hard to imagine “spicin’” up Bon Iver. Then again, who would have thought a folk singer from Wisconsin would collaborate with Kanye West? This remix of Bon Iver’s “Skinny Love” by Das Kapital is a perfect balance. It would be easy to over weigh Bon Iver’s acoustic and minimalist sound with synth production and [...]
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“Miss Misery (Early Version)” by Elliott Smith
Seattle and Portland based label, Kill Rock Stars, have released what could be described alternately as a either a retrospective or overview consisting mostly of Elliott Smith’s non-Dreamworks discography in the form of a 14 track album of greatest hits, for lack of a better term. The album, called An Introduction to contains some of his sparest, most [...]
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Sean Hayes Interview: Having a Baby
This interview was initially published at SF Station. David Johnson-Igra, is SFCritic, and SF Station allows for the republishing of this material. By the time you read this Sean Hayes has likely begun “a clean slate.” He will have become a father, and he will have recorded all sixteen years worth of his backlogged music. It will have [...]
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