Review Roundup 8/21: Mark Lipman, North Ingalls, EmmyJean Jenkins
This week's review roundup highlights queer Laurel Canyon-style tunes, indie-cana (my term for indie rock and Americana), and late-in-life pride anthems.
Album Reviews
Nathan Evans Fox -- Heirloom
With his latest album Heirloom, Nathan Evans Fox guides us through the warp and weft of life with anthemic sing-alongs and deeply personal lyrics.
Amy Martin -- Bones
Amy Martin is so frank and sincere in her grief-filled album Bones, you may need to take a break, writes Stefanie Cuthbert
Creekbed Carter Hogan -- Peasant's Revolt
Creekbed Carter gives us one of the most important albums of the year with Peasant's Revolt, a winding exploration of the self, oppression, history, and the balm for all of it: hot dogs.
Aaron Lee Tasjan - Get Over It, Underdog
Bee Delores reviews Aaron Lee Tasjan's latest, Get Over It, Underdog. Tasjan gets at the core of our collective tensions, Delores writes, but the album could have used some editing.
Allison Russell - In the Hour of Chaos
Allison Russell gives us a reprieve from the contamination of today's world on her new album In the Hour of Chaos. Bee Delores writes that it allows us to find ourselves again.
C.C. Trubiak -- Jukebox in Exile
On Jukebox in Exile, C.C. Trubiak spins classic country gold with songs that are never too reverent for the past -- but instead connect us to those who came before, and those who will come.