Echomatica – Echomatica (13th Floor Album Review)
Echomatica arrive with a self titled debut album that favours texture over immediacy, building moody, slow-burning songs from synths, reverb and restraint.
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Laura Veirs & The Choir Who Couldn’t Say – Live in Angoulême (Raven Marching Band)
For more than two decades Portland based singer-songwriter Laura Veirs has turned quiet observation into iridescent song: rivers, snowfields, the faint tracks people leave behind. On Live in Angoulême she lets those vivid descriptions breathe through a 32-voice French school choir, and the result is both faithful and startlingly new.
Nicki Bluhm – Rancho Deluxe (13th Floor Album Review)
Nicki Bluhm sings like someone who has travelled far, but never lost touch with where she began. On Rancho Deluxe she draws on her heartbreak, reinvention and restless travel to ask what it means to find home, community and meaning at times of personal change. This is an album of resilience and reflection, alive with stories that circle nature, […]
Black Lips – Season of the Peach (Fire) (13th Floor Album Review)
Season of the Peach, the latest album from Black Lips, kicks the doors down from the first warped note. What follows is a relentless 14-track, 40 minute, loud, high-speed ride through death wishes, celebrity name-drops, and glorious chaos.
Something They Call Myth – Too: Matheson Bay Sessions (13th Floor EP Review)
From the first hush of finger-picked guitar, Too: Matheson Bay Sessions by Something They Call Myth feels like a night around the fire with friends, music as an invitation and memory all at once. Across four songs it moves from the fading glow of Embers to the slow-burn intimacy of House of Friends, weaving stories of camaraderie, risk, and […]
Amanda Shires – Nobody’s Girl (ATO) (13th Floor Album Review)
Amanda Shires’ Nobody’s Girl is a luminous, defiant chronicle of life after the end of both a marriage and a musical partnership with fellow songwriter Jason Isbell.
The Third Mind – Right Now! (Yep Roc) (13th Floor Album Review)
From the opening notes of Right Now! it’s clear that The Third Mind have once again captured the thrill of discovery in real time. Their third studio album is a dynamic dialogue between musicians, eras, and every earlier version of these songs that these fearless improvisers now claim them as their own.
Joan Shelley – Real Warmth (No Quarter) (13th Floor Album Review)
Joan Shelley writes songs that feel like places you can step inside: quiet rooms, wooded trails, a friend’s porch at dusk. With Real Warmth she invites us into the most welcoming space she’s built yet. It’s an album of home, connection, and slow-burning growth, recorded live in the dead of a cold Toronto winter yet filled with […]
Carson McHone – Pentimento (Merge) (13th Floor Album Review)
Carson McHone’s fourth album Pentimento arrives like a living manuscript, its pages alive with shifting landscapes, salt air, and the grain of skin.
Scarlet Rae – No Heavy Goodbyes (Bayonet) (13th Floor EP Review)
Every so often an artist emerges who feels both familiar and utterly distinct. Scarlet Rae, born in Los Angeles and now based in New York, is one of those.
