No Roads (The Garden)
After living through a year that brought a devastating tornado and a deadly global pandemic, rapper Reaux Marquez felt inspired to craft an album that reflected the loss and tumult he and his North Nashville community experienced.
No Roads is an immersive, narrative album, opening with the spoken line, âThe child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.â Marquez produced the album himself, and he adds flourishes of jazz, spoken word, R&B and field recordings into his fiery, moody soundscapes, which add color and texture to his versatile flow. To boot, Marquez also assembled a killer lineup of featured artists, including local mainstays like A.B. Eastwood, Jamiah, Namir Blade and Lauren McClinton. BRITTNEY McKENNA
Guided By Voices
Wire Greyhounds
Father Sgt. Christmas Card
Follow-up to the 2001 album Isolation Drills, this album features 19 glittering pop melodies. In a return to self-production, the band recorded in a variety of different studios, on different media, on 8-track and 24-t.
more »rack. The result is more akin to their earlier albums combined with the efficiency of execution and musicianship of the more recent recordings. digipak. 2002. Matador.
Re-Release Date: 6/18/2002
Album Description
Follow-up to the 2001 album Isolation Drills, this album features 19 glittering pop melodies. In a return to self-production, the band recorded in a variety of different studios, on different media, on 8-track and 24-track. The result is more akin to their earlier albums combined with the efficiency of execution and musicianship of the more recent recordings. digipak. 2002. Matador.
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As we finally make our way into 2021, WYSO asked our music hosts to take one last look back on the year that was 2020, and give us their favorite selections from an unorthodox year in music. Today, we ll feature picks from Around The Fringe s Andy Valeri.
2020. A tough year by nearly any measure. And one which saw music culture take a serious hit, not only in the ability to produce it, but especially in arguably music’s most impactful realm - performing it live with and for people. The effects these challenges have posed this year to musicians and to music culture have definitely taken their toll on the amount of music not just being performed, but being produced in general, with a litany of different works having been or still being delayed in their production and release.
Head below for this week s reviews.
ALBUM OF THE WEEK #1: Guided by Voices - The Styles We Paid For (Guided by Voices Inc)
The unstoppable Bob Pollard lets fly the third GBV record of 2020 made in quarantine, rocks the same Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. That s the old motto of the United States Postal Service, but it works for
Guided by Voices, too. Bob Pollard has records to make and release, and nothing is going to stop him. Certainly not a global pandemic. The original idea for Guided by Voices third album of 2020 when Pollard wrote the songs back in February, was that it would be recorded live to analogue tape and would be called