At the moment, at least for listing the best female singer-songwriter stuff to come out this decade, cause there's been so much and I'm sure I've missed a ton. Here are, off the top of my head, a bunch of the albums I've really really loved. (Some of these may be pushing the definition a bit.)
Alela Diane - To Be StillBeth Orton - Comfort of StrangersCat Power - The Greatest, You Are FreeCharming Hostess - Sarajevo BluesCourtney Love - Nobody's DaughterJewlia Eisenberg - TrilecticJudy Collins - Sings Leonard Cohen: DemocracyKathleen Edwards - Asking for FlowersLaura Marling - Alas I Cannot SwimNeko Case - Blacklisted, Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, Middle CyclonePaula Cole - CourageRegina Spektor - Begin to Hope, Soviet KitschScary Mansion - Every Joke is Half the Truth
― Mordy, Monday, 23 November 2009 23:45 (3 years ago) Permalink
Gillian Welch's two albums from this decade have been stellar
― tylerw, Monday, 23 November 2009 23:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
definitely second laura marling.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 00:01 (3 years ago) Permalink
Aimee Mann's last two records were great.
― 9-1 never forget (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 00:04 (3 years ago) Permalink
Josephine Foster, This Coming GladnessMary Hampton, My Mother's ChildrenAnd everything by Marissa Nadler.
― anagram, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 00:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
I very much approve of this thread. I've been toying with starting something like this for a while after getting into a bit of argument with Kate a while back about "Lilith Fair" music. I feel like there's a line that separates the respectable (Joanna Newsom and Neko Case, say) from the unrespectable (Paula Cole - I didn't even know she'd released an album this decade Mordy!). But it's an odd line, hard to see and quite unpredictable at times.
Stuff I really like from this decade:
Maria McKee - Peddlin' Dreams (this is fantastic. Maria is such an amazing full package)Stina Nordenstam - The World Is SavedJenny Wilson - Love & YouthAni DiFranco - Revelling/ReckoningLhasa - The Living Road
― Tim F, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 04:43 (3 years ago) Permalink
these are both probably decade top-20 or 30 for me:
nina nastasia & jim white you follow me (really i like all 5 nina albums from this decade, but this is my favorite. depending on the day.)keren ann not going anywhere (she had nice enough stuff both before and after this, but this one's the only classic imo)
― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 05:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
also worth checking:
abigail washburn & the sparrow quartet (s/t)paula frazer & tarnation now it's time
― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 05:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
and i feel like shannon wright deserves a mention, but tbh i much prefer seeing her live to any of her individual albums.
― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 05:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
oh, and vashti bunyan.
also --- kate bush!
― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 05:50 (3 years ago) Permalink
i really loved paper anniversary and nevertheless from christine fellows
also basia bulat's oh, my darling
― kaygee, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 05:58 (3 years ago) Permalink
Sarah Blasko who I've completely ignored for ages assuming she was all folksy and cheesy but she's pretty damn amazing and quite odd, in a lovely way.
And I <3 Imogen Heap.
― hulk would smash (Trayce), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 06:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
gemma hayes. her last two albums seem to have been largely ignored and are both great
― "your shades, man, they're shite..." (electricsound), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 06:06 (3 years ago) Permalink
I've got a huge list now from this thread of stuff I've gotta listen to.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 06:08 (3 years ago) Permalink
other newer fssw i dig: beth jeans houghton, helen page (paperplain), emma tricca
― "your shades, man, they're shite..." (electricsound), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 06:09 (3 years ago) Permalink
cortney tidwell (esp. this ewan pearson rmx):
― ♪♫(●̲̲̅̅̅̅=̲̲̅̅̅̅●̲̅̅)♪♫ (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 06:15 (3 years ago) Permalink
from brasil:
Cibelle - s/t, The Shine of Dried Electric LeavesCéU - s/t, Vagarosa
― ♪♫(●̲̲̅̅̅̅=̲̲̅̅̅̅●̲̅̅)♪♫ (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 06:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
^^^that cortney tidwell song is singled out cuz it's like one of my top 5 of the decade prolly, and the rmx is really perfect (esp at club volume)
― ♪♫(●̲̲̅̅̅̅=̲̲̅̅̅̅●̲̅̅)♪♫ (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 06:20 (3 years ago) Permalink
I do quite like that Alela Diane record. My favorite Josephine Foster record, though, is "All The Leaves Are Gone."
― ian, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 06:25 (3 years ago) Permalink
Am I allowed to talk about Emmylou Harris in this thread?
― lukevalentine, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 07:58 (3 years ago) Permalink
Adding a seasonal touch (well, almost) – Sarah McLachlan's album of Christmas songs is quite, quite lovely.
― anagram, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 09:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
And everything by Marissa Nadler.
― anagram, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 00:28 (9 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Everything else once you've heard and rinsed her first two albums, is what I'd say in fairness - she is great tho
'Me Oh My' by Cate Le Bon is the best thing I've heard in this 'category' in 09, it's got a bit of broadsheet <3 but none on here that I noticed
― 9-1 changed everything (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 10:27 (3 years ago) Permalink
Got tickets to see Laura Marling in NY in February. Super excited!
― Mordy, Wednesday, 30 December 2009 13:19 (3 years ago) Permalink
tara jane o'neil seems to release albums under the radar. this year's a ways away is kinda a nice summary of her stuff, probably one of my favourites from this year.
jolie holland; the last sharon von etten lp, too.
― high-five machine (schlump), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 13:41 (3 years ago) Permalink
No-one stanning for Brooke Waggoner? The 'Fresh Pair Of Eyes' EP is completely completely astonishing imo/
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Wednesday, 30 December 2009 14:14 (3 years ago) Permalink
Just... stop-what-you're-doing-and-listen-in-amazement stuff?
I really like that Sharon von Etten song that Sean Gramophone made his track of the year, that's great.
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Wednesday, 30 December 2009 14:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
I always forget that this is my favourite genre!
The K.D. Lang cover of 'Bird on a Wire'! Lispector's 'Human Problems and How to Solve Them' (still an album of the decade)! Abigail Lapell - Boston Song!
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Wednesday, 30 December 2009 14:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
Any idea if the new Waggoner album is good?
― Mordy, Wednesday, 30 December 2009 14:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
Hmmm. Should I get Beth Orton tickets too?
― Mordy, Wednesday, 30 December 2009 17:12 (3 years ago) Permalink
I... don't like it that much? I mean the title track is pretty great but I haven't found too much else to get into.
It doesn't do much of the "mm-hmm this is pleasant... o it is a piano... oh wow this is really good" thing that I really like in 'Heal For The Honey'
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Wednesday, 30 December 2009 18:26 (3 years ago) Permalink
New Laura Marling is freaking awesome.
― Mordy, Sunday, 14 March 2010 03:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
The first track "Devil's Spoke" is just tremendous.
― Mordy, Sunday, 14 March 2010 03:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
I want to read what Luke Valentine thinks about Emmylou Harris. Please.
― banjoboy, Sunday, 14 March 2010 08:53 (3 years ago) Permalink
I did not know her before today, but what I've heard of this new Laura Marling album is really good. Not really my usual thing, but my usual thing seems pretty in flux at the moment anyway.
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 14 March 2010 12:18 (3 years ago) Permalink
mentioned elsewhere, but I've been really fascinated by the last Tiny Vipers album.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Sunday, 14 March 2010 12:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
So I've lately been listening to a lot of 1970s more-obscure (at least to me) female singer-songwriter music. Particularly the Linda Perhacs album, Susan Christie's Paint a Lady, The Pentangle's Sweet Child (not entirely this genre), Fairport Convention (don't love it like the others), Judee Sill (omg), + Janis Ian's Between the Lines (a little later in the decade than these other albums). What's some other stuff that's got a similar feel that I might dig? Especially anything like Perhacs or Christie. I'm checking out Magic Carpet too.
― Mordy, Saturday, 25 September 2010 00:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
I wonder if Beth Orton's "Shadow of a Doubt" is consciously evoking Annie Briggs' "Go Your Way." They even articulate the relevant lyrics ("You go your way, my love, you go your way") in a similar way it sounds (at least to my ears).
― Mordy, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 15:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
belatedly 2nding Christine Fellows's Paper Anniversary, one of my favorite albums ever, period
also, Sarah Dougher's The Walls Ablaze - it's 99/00 but is all-time imo
― drawl the whine (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 15:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
Wiki has the answer!
A song on Beth Orton's Comfort of Strangers, 'Shadow of a Doubt' is cited as an ode to the song 'You Go Your Way', the chorus being somewhat directly lifted.
So awesome.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 16:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
I like chelsea wolfe when she's doing the trad singer-songwriter thing. seems like she'd rather be a spooky goth girl, which doesn't work as well for her as the straight forward stuff.
― vehemence is mine (Edward III), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 17:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
no martha wainwright mention itt? for shame
― vehemence is mine (Edward III), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 17:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
larkin grimm's parplar never got the props it deserved I thought
― vehemence is mine (Edward III), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 17:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
So, what's the best stuff from 2010? Here's my list:
Anais Mitchell - HadestownCathy Davey - The NamelessCharming Hostess - The Bowls ProjectClare Burson - Silver and AshJoanna Newsom - Have One On Me (Ok, I really only like a couple tracks off this but probably deserves a mention on the thread)Laura Marling - I Speak Because I CanRoni Alter - Kis Avir (Amazingly gorgeous Israeli singer-songwriter album)Taylor Swift - Speak Now (maybe not this genre really)Tracey Thorn - Love and Its Opposite
What else do I need to check out from this year?
― Mordy, Saturday, 18 December 2010 21:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
Kristin Hersh - Crooked is fantastic even though the best songs are B-sides now. Susanne Sundfor's The Brothel is also good.
lots of people have been raving about Thea Gilmore's new album but on (admittedly first and cursory) listen it's a bit samey to me. Also Laura Veirs, although I haven't heard it.
― katherine (katherinesta), Sunday, 19 December 2010 03:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
Tracey Thorn - Love and Its Opposite
soooo underpublicized
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 19 December 2010 03:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
Check out Elizabeth Cook's album
Or the amazing debut by Rumer
― henry s, Sunday, 19 December 2010 14:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
New Nina Nastasia is really great, probably my favourite album in this vein for 2010 (that I've heard).
― seandalai, Sunday, 19 December 2010 20:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
Angel Olsen is my favorite right now:
― maybe i'm just gay (Tape Store), Saturday, 5 February 2011 12:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
i don't know if it was just the video, but that sounds really creepy! reminded me of
― Mordy, Saturday, 5 February 2011 16:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
New Alela Diane (Alela Diane & Wind Divine) that's really beautiful. As good (maybe even better) than To Be Still.
I still think she's a million times better than Joanna Newsom (doing similar things).
― Mordy, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 13:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
i hope he doesn't mind, but reposted from Laura Marling thread:
A top 10 would be impossible to do - there's so much to choose from. But, some recommendations off the top of my head, not necessarily from the 70s:Wendy & Bonnie, that beautiful Chimera album from 1969, Margo Guryan, Sibylle Baier, Veronique Chalot, that nice new Carol Kleyn reissue, Bridget St. John, Connie Converse, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Judee Sill, Suzy Mangion, those early Elżbieta Adamiak recordings, etc.(With also this side order (admittedly perhaps projected) tinge of a sneer of why bother listening to female singer songwriters at all, they're just this faceless mass of banality? It really smacks of "there can be only one"-ism.)Yes, you're clearly projecting, as 'female singer-songwriters' constitute a large percentage of what I listen to on a daily basis.― The Not Liking Radiohead Awards (Turangalila), Wednesday, July 27, 2011 11:43 AM (17 minutes ago)
Wendy & Bonnie, that beautiful Chimera album from 1969, Margo Guryan, Sibylle Baier, Veronique Chalot, that nice new Carol Kleyn reissue, Bridget St. John, Connie Converse, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Judee Sill, Suzy Mangion, those early Elżbieta Adamiak recordings, etc.
(With also this side order (admittedly perhaps projected) tinge of a sneer of why bother listening to female singer songwriters at all, they're just this faceless mass of banality? It really smacks of "there can be only one"-ism.)Yes, you're clearly projecting, as 'female singer-songwriters' constitute a large percentage of what I listen to on a daily basis.
― The Not Liking Radiohead Awards (Turangalila), Wednesday, July 27, 2011 11:43 AM (17 minutes ago)
― Mordy, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 16:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
bc this can't be posted enough on ilm
― Mordy, Saturday, 6 August 2011 22:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
OTM
― I for one am (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 6 August 2011 23:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
The you/too/blue/true/flue/moo/grue grates but otherwise it's absolutely gorgeous
― classic albums live! (Ówen P.), Sunday, 7 August 2011 00:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
Although of course I would've totally fallen for a "You just might be eaten by a grue"
― classic albums live! (Ówen P.), Sunday, 7 August 2011 00:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
"they said that the world is built for two / it's dark, you will likely be eaten by a grue"haunting imo
― Mordy, Sunday, 7 August 2011 00:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
Backwards compatible with PS2
― classic albums live! (Ówen P.), Sunday, 7 August 2011 00:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
omg that song
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Sunday, 7 August 2011 01:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
That Lana Del Ray song is just... wow. The first thing I've heard in ages that gave me the shivers.
― Vast Halo, Sunday, 7 August 2011 16:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh wow I love this
― swaguirre, the wrath of basedgod (bernard snowy), Sunday, 7 August 2011 17:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
yep yep
obsessed
― ✇ (Tape Store), Sunday, 7 August 2011 17:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.avclub.com/articles/exclusive-stream-jennifer-oconnor-steps-out-on-her,64888/
Gorgeous
― Mordy, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 17:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
New Frida Hyvönen:
http://svtplay.se/v/2711638
I thought her first two albums were completely brilliant, perfectly delivered heartbroken piano-pop, but this is a slight turn of direction that really works.
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 16 February 2012 13:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
One of the happiest things for me is when this thread is updated :P
I've got a ton of stuff to post here soon... I'll check out Hyvonen tho right away.
― Mordy, Thursday, 16 February 2012 14:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
Ok, so stuff from this year that seems relevant to this thread. All of it is available on Spotify:
Kathleen Edwards - Voyageur (my fave album of the year so far, despite only 5 really strong songs - but they're really really good!)Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/2CjPZev1d4F9fVnRV4TcQh
First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar (some good stuff, despite Conor Oberst showing up on a few tracks)Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/3zmPFx2ilVB0nx2XKVH5Qc
Ani DiFranco - Which Side Are You On? (not a huge fan of hers, or this album)http://open.spotify.com/album/5aIEUKZZzFuFOY1yciFh6U
Laura Gibson - La Grande (kinda laura viers / alela diane / acidey folk vibe from Portland)Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/4ixzvUAUHm17jojcasFupf
Hospitality - Hospitality (debut - i think - album from Brooklyn based Amber Papini fronted band, single 'Friends of Friends' kinda reminds me of Michelle Shocked style urban folk / Regina Spektor anti-folk)Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/0CcRg0EwFcCKw99gLIcOCQ
Grace Woodroofe - Always Want (i think this one is actually from 2011, but i didn't hear it until recently: bluesy and she's got really fabulous vox)Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/7KEFYylXXJkokbWC90Frz8
Madison Violet - The Good in Goodbye (another 2011 - i think - release that i only recently got to hear - Canadian folk, maybe i'm more impressed by the cover than the music which largely recalls Dixie Chicks tbh, 'Goin Away' for some reason evoking Meg + Dia for me)Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/5Br5a4ZmMboIw1Qzo0L02h
The Civil Wars - Barton Hollow (really beautiful - i didn't know about this album until they won the Grammy for best folk. it's got that Americana folk/blues sound aka Alison Krauss-esque that the voters love so much. Joy Williams shares vocal duties with John Paul White)Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/7wmwaIt99NVwdOc7Z8jXYK
Also special mention to Lacuna Coil - Dark Adrenaline which doesn't really fit this thread but I don't think we have a female fronted metal thread yet (altho if j3ff is reading this: we should have one!)
Anything else so far this year I'm missing that is good? I haven't heard the Grimes album yet -- would that fit here?
― Mordy, Sunday, 19 February 2012 16:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
i really like this song by claire cronin (LA-based musician/artist/poet), she has a kind of oldham-ish vocal warble:
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Thursday, 14 June 2012 19:23 (11 months ago) Permalink
New Dar Williams album IN THE TIME OF GODS, is my fave thing she's done in a decade. "I Am The One Who Will Remember Everything" is a highlight:
http://youtu.be/4NjB6gUbAMk
― to welcome jer.fairall, pie is served. (jer.fairall), Friday, 15 June 2012 02:15 (11 months ago) Permalink
Gah!
some other albums that fit (ok, some of this stuff stretches the definition substantially, but it's all great) that i've liked this year:
V/A - The Hunger Games: Songs from District 12 and Beyondhttp://open.spotify.com/album/45nqVXRAW0xv0wpU9JljPN
Karen Dalton - 1966 (recorded in 1966, but maybe my album of the year)http://open.spotify.com/album/1K7tpapZGd6Ax1YA2vXNEA
Nneka - Soul is Heavyhttp://open.spotify.com/album/2y8fPjPCWanp8VbAIycIaT
Mirel Wagner - Mirel Wagnerhttp://open.spotify.com/album/33jmg7nlISoNdjKXhC0IpR
Lyriel - Leverage (gothic metal, actually, but close enough)http://open.spotify.com/album/6eVtM5u0K3DXbOFUajNaIo
Colleen Green - Milo Goes to Comptonhttp://open.spotify.com/album/3maiMpeCNMkpxxwGngBmdo
Sarah Aroeste - Garcia (ladino)
Marissa Nadler - The Sisterhttp://open.spotify.com/album/3pmoAaokJOGLTaXViwejVc
― Mordy, Sunday, 17 June 2012 16:38 (11 months ago) Permalink
loving new Cat Power which i think is still streaming over at NPR
little spotify playlist of this thread type music: http://open.spotify.com/user/mordys/playlist/74xrKvuYOArQjAWXYulk0G
um, i hope he doesn't mind me reposting him but curmudgeon on rolling favorite music thread recommends (and totally fits the vibe here):
I have never heard the Crutchfield sisters who are involved in 2 of Jon Caramanica of the NY Times fave indie-rock albums of the year (I have also not noticed anyone repping for them here, but maybe I mised the thread)They’re 23 now, these twins, and even though the Ackleys are just a memory, the Crutchfields have continued, forming one band after the next, building a series of cult followings and arriving at the present moment with gale force. Separately they’ve made two of the year’s best and most affecting indie rock albums: “American Weekend” (Don Giovanni), by Waxahatchee, Katie’s solo project, which was released in January, and the self-titled debut album (on Salinas) by Allison’s band Swearin’, which was released in June.http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/02/arts/music/allison-and-katie-crutchfield-twins-go-separate-ways.html?_r=1&ref=arts
They’re 23 now, these twins, and even though the Ackleys are just a memory, the Crutchfields have continued, forming one band after the next, building a series of cult followings and arriving at the present moment with gale force. Separately they’ve made two of the year’s best and most affecting indie rock albums: “American Weekend” (Don Giovanni), by Waxahatchee, Katie’s solo project, which was released in January, and the self-titled debut album (on Salinas) by Allison’s band Swearin’, which was released in June.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/02/arts/music/allison-and-katie-crutchfield-twins-go-separate-ways.html?_r=1&ref=arts
― Mordy, Sunday, 2 September 2012 23:35 (8 months ago) Permalink
also not on spotify but aimee wilson has a new album out that incorporates sacred harp influences which is def worth checking out, if only bc sacred harp is pretty awesome
― Mordy, Sunday, 2 September 2012 23:38 (8 months ago) Permalink
Of related interest (though not strictly a singer-songwriter in the narrowest sense):
Company of Thieves
(though absolutely nobody I know virtually or in real life seems remotely as excited by Genevieve Schatz and this band as I am.)
― the optics aren't what they look like (_Rudipherous_), Monday, 3 September 2012 03:33 (8 months ago) Permalink
Meanwhile there are a lot of names on this thread I can't remember if I've ever tried out, so I should get busy.
― the optics aren't what they look like (_Rudipherous_), Monday, 3 September 2012 03:35 (8 months ago) Permalink
Dar Williams' "I Am The One Who Will Remember Everything" sound like a cover to me but I can't figure out from where and Google just points back to Williams. Any ideas? Maybe something it sounds a lot like?
― Mordy, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 12:37 (8 months ago) Permalink
Nina Nastasia is apparently going to record another album w/Albini soon, according to an interview w/Albini
also she supposedly had a band with Kim Deal o_O
― Jandek at the Disco (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 15:27 (8 months ago) Permalink
listening to this nina nielsen album, 'love and terror in the wilderness'. i have not so much tolerance for breathy scandinavian voices these days but the music is very sparse and moody and just interesting enough. people who liked the mirel wagner might enjoy this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLunRzzw5m0
― these wilburys taste like wilburys (donna rouge), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 19:43 (7 months ago) Permalink
that was maybe not the most ringing endorsement but i do really like this song^
― these wilburys taste like wilburys (donna rouge), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 19:46 (7 months ago) Permalink
Noa Babayof - From A Window To A Wall
sad chamber-folk album, released in 2007 and immediately ignored despite the Greg Weeks/Espers connection. listen if you like Marissa Nadler and Nick Drake or if "Give Me a Smile" is your favorite Sibylle Baier song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrQBGWsGIO4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2WG6raAJnM
― and yet (unregistered), Thursday, 1 November 2012 03:43 (6 months ago) Permalink
the whole album is on on bandcamp actually. I didn't realize it was originally released in Israel (she moved from there to Philadelphia for the sake of her music). it doesn't seem like she's released anything else in the past 5 years.
― and yet (unregistered), Thursday, 1 November 2012 13:21 (6 months ago) Permalink
Serafina Steer - The Moths Are Real
Really pretty I thought! Anyway, the first fs-s of the new year I've heard and enjoyed. A little glittery, shimmering but her voice is very light and pleasant.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 19:49 (4 months ago) Permalink
is the rolling female singer-songwriter thread sexist?
― some dude, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 20:49 (4 months ago) Permalink
definitely
― Mordy, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 20:50 (4 months ago) Permalink
no mention of Mariee Sioux on this incredibly sexist thread? she's Alela Diane's soul sister, apparently.
― naadje draadje (unregistered), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 21:17 (4 months ago) Permalink
not just sexist but incomplete!
― Mordy, Wednesday, 16 January 2013 21:43 (4 months ago) Permalink
Sera Cahoone:
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Monday, 21 January 2013 10:52 (4 months ago) Permalink
Thumbs up on the Serafina Steer album, nice record!
― a la recherche du tempbans perdu (NickB), Thursday, 24 January 2013 14:39 (4 months ago) Permalink
― Mordy, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 23:47 (3 months ago) Permalink
so this samantha crain album is pretty great
― Mordy, Wednesday, 20 February 2013 15:26 (3 months ago) Permalink
Only one listen in, but this new Waxahatchee sounds exactly like Kathleen Edwards recording an early Liz Phair record, to me, so I think I'm gonna like it.
― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Saturday, 16 March 2013 17:45 (2 months ago) Permalink
Someone over on the Electric Mole Forums (a Shiina Ringo board) has good things to say about Torres, who sounds okay to me (the whole singer-writer deal isn't really my thing most of the time):
― The Pistol Annie Sprinkles (_Rudipherous_), Sunday, 7 April 2013 14:58 (1 month ago) Permalink