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Baltimore indie-pop duo Wye Oak are preparing to release their sixth album, The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs, on April 6. They've released two songs from the album already---"It Was Not Natural" and the title track. Both pit Jenn Wasser's disarming, introspective voice and guitar punctuations against Andy Stack's dense, technically dazzling percussion and keyboard backing. "Lifer," the band's...
On a dreary afternoon in late March, Kacey Musgraves pulls up to a Walgreens in the town of Sioux City, which sits at the intersection of South Dakota, Nebraska, and Iowa, tucked just inside the border of the latter. She’s here supporting country behemoths Little Big Town on a tour that is approaching the end of a run through cities in the Upper Midwest--Duluth, Grand Folks, Cedar Rapids--where...
The first voice on Amen Dunes’ new album Freedom is a child delivering the pep talk from the 2004 hockey movie Miracle. “This is your time,” the kid booms, sounding messianic. “Their time is done!” Singer and songwriter Damon McMahon doesn’t speak in those kind of absolutes. The true key to understanding this new album, he says, is the second epigraph. It’s the abstract painter Agnes...
