Having moved to Europe in Spring, I’m just being reminded of all the new music gets released in the Northern Hemisphere as the bands and crowds get ready for festivals and concerts everywhere from Ireland to Sweden to Portugal. 2017 seems to be the year of the mini-comeback, at least bands I haven’t seen for a few […]

Found via NPR First Listen, this seems a world away from Dan Auerbach’s thumping rock as one half of The Black Keys – intensity and belting rhythms replaced with hazy, soft melodies that would have been top of the charts in the 1970s.

Land of Talk is a band (or mostly, Elizabeth Powell) from Montréal new to me, but making a long-waited return with “Life After Youth” – lo-fi, melancholy and engaging.