Category: folk
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miquela e lei chapacans – miquela e lei chapacans
Found between Southern France and the Pyranees, this starburst of folk-funk compiles the work of a delightful progressive girl group from the late 70s and 80s. After her beloved self-titled debut in 1978, lead singer Miquela continued to promote the baroque Occitan language in which she sung. Here, as a unified force, her troop of […]
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bill callahan – YTILAER
Bill Callahan has exposed a lot of his soul, but ceaseless in his songwriting lives a perpetually roaming orientation. Each track here sounds as though he has momentarily halted a horseback journey to take in the view of a mountain range. YTILAER is reflective, but its greatest quality is in the rousing intimacy of each […]
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labi siffre – crying, laughing, loving, lying (1972)
Beyond his beloved-by-producers take on funk, Labi Siffre was unusually skilled at creating subtle folk ballads. On C,L, L, L his high-pitched, drifting vocals, which have since inhabited Robin Pecknold, coalesced with serene acoustics. Each component is wrapped in his earnest songwriting—-the rushes of emotion bloom and plateau with deep sweetness. In spite of some […]
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le mystère des voix bulgares – le mystère des voix bulgares: volume 1 (1975)
It’s a miraculous thing when a piece of art is as substantial as it is infinite. Le Mystère Des Voix Bulgares: Volume 1 is a compilation of Bulgarian folk songs, arranged with an avant-garde temper. These sublime tracks signal that while raw materials possess quantitative limits, they are boundless in essence. The voices are simply […]
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lou reed – music and words, may 1965
Lou gets a lot of love on this platform. Why, just yesterday his influence was noted in reference to our album of the week. Love for Lou sometimes comes with an asterisk: music good, vocals meh. Something like that. But the ostensible limitations of his voice have always simultaneously been its beauty, essence, and attitude. […]
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