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New Music Reviews (4/5) KEXP
Each week, Music Director Don Yates (joined this week by DJ Abbie) shares brief insights on new and upcoming releases for KEXP s rotation. These reviews help our DJs decide on what they want to play. See what we added this week below (and on our Charts page), including new releases from
serpentwithfeet,
DEACON (Secretly Canadian)
The excellent second album from this Baltimore-bred, LA-based artist (aka Josiah Wise) brings a more optimistic perspective to his expansive R&B/gospel-influenced sound, forsaking the dark, sometimes stormy textures and tortured lyrics of his debut album Soil in favor of an airy, atmospheric sound combining celestial synths, piano, acoustic guitar, often-spacious beats and sun-kissed melodies with his silky lead vocals, layered vocal harmonies and personal lyrics of love, sex, friendship and connection. DY
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Just seconds into my phone call with Shane Tutmarc, I tell him I’ll do my best to not inundate him with questions about Seattle. We both lived in the city in the early 2000s. I covered music at the popular alt-weekly
The Stranger, and he had just started to play baroque-pop music around town under the moniker Dolour.
Now that we’re meeting again, several years after we separately and coincidentally moved to Nashville, it feels impossible to not at least dip a toe into the pool of Pacific Northwest nostalgia.
“You wrote the ‘Shane is leaving Seattle for Nashville’ article for
The Explorers Club entice listeners to be born again by music
The Explorers Clubâs Jason Brewer is something of a â60s sunshine pop mensch, and he proves his mettle on this fine album of a collection of period covers.
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Genre: ‘60s AM pop
The Explorers Club’s Jason Brewer is something of a ‘60s sunshine pop mensch, and he proves his mettle on this fine collection of period covers. Alternating between Top 40 smashes (“The Turtles’ “She’d Rather Be With Me,” Paul Revere and the Raiders’ “Kicks”) and slightly more obscure selections (The Zombies’ “Maybe After He’s Gone,” Orpheus’ “Can’t Find the Time”), each of the 10 tracks presented here is exquisitely executed and beautifully sung. Among those assisting Brewer with vocal duties are Jeff Celentano, Shane Tutmarc, and, on one song each, Barenaked Ladies co-founder Steven Page and Jay Gonzalez of Drive-By Truckers. To Sing… is a cut above most covers albums due to the almost re
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