Haerts deliver a hushed and folky third album with 2025’s Laguna Road. The album is named after the road where the German-born/longtime Brooklyn-based duo of singer Nini Fabi and instrumentalist Benny Gebert lived and recorded the album in Pasadena, California. They had moved west following the release of 2021’s Dream Nation, as well as the birth of their daughter and were just finishing up the album when the Eaton Fire swept through Pasadena, destroying much of the community where the couple made their home. Consequently, they made the difficult decision to move back east, settling in New York’s Hudson Valley where they prepared the album’s release. Where previous albums showcased the duo’s dreamy synth pop,…
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You have to be a pretty big Billy Childish fan to notice the subtle differences between his many musical projects (and there are plenty of them), but they really are there if you’re paying attention. His earlier groups, like the Pop Rivets and Thee Mighty Caesars, tended to be musically gritty but lyrically playful, while he was more willing to explore the darker side of his imagination in his blues-oriented solo recordings and latter-day acts such as the Musicians of the British Empire and CTMF. In 2022, Childish reunited one of his most prolific combos, Thee Headcoats (initially active from 1988 to 2000) to pay homage to one of his musical heroes, Don Craine of the Downliners Sect, and they cut an album, Irregularis (The Great Hiatus), that arrived in 2023.
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To understand Doves’ enduring appeal, one must look past the anthemic sweep of their sound and into the nuanced poetry of their lyrics. Their songwriting achieves a rare balance, framing intimate battles of love, loss, and resignation against a gritty, panoramic Northern backdrop.
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…contains a new remaster of the original album plus eight original demos, two new mixes, various B-sides and rarities, and a previously unreleased concert recorded at SHIBUYA-AX in Tokyo in March 2001.
A lot of fun can be had with the original instrument, the human voice. One need not include lyrics, simply a sense of exploration, a willingness to reach past the boundaries of conversation, perhaps a bit of harmony and rhythm. In Solids for Voices, Copenhagen’s