For years, Cactus Lee has quietly built a singular body of work, playing honky-tonks around Austin while releasing records at a steady, self-driven pace.
Lee’s Dream, his second album for Western Vinyl, feels like the natural distillation of that journey-written on the road, refined at home, and shaped by the push and pull between devotion to music and devotion to family. Conceived during a monthlong solo tour through the Midwest and South, the songs began as sketches written in vans and motel rooms, sparked in part by a visit to Guy Clark’s reconstructed basement at the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Returning home to personal upheaval, Kevin Dehan turned inward, writing songs…
Previously known as a member of Afrobeat fusionists NOMO and for his introspective indie rock songwriting as In Tall Buildings, 
Nate Mendelsohn’s skills in the studio are legendary in New York’s indie music world. The multi-instrumentalist, producer and engineer has collaborated with the likes of Yaeji, Frankie Cosmos, Phony Ppl, Dougie Poole, Office Culture, Adeline Hotel, and many more. For more than a decade, he’s also been releasing his own music under the moniker 
Although they dropped the Cascading Moms moniker from the release this time around, Hungry Animal returns the 
There is a certain solace to be found in minimal music-a contemplative joy that emerges through sustained repetition and subtle variation. 
An evocative, scene-setting project from its inception, Wilder Maker take their world-building to another level on 
When singer/songwriter Nicholas Krgovich and multi-instrumentalist Joseph Shabason booked a two-week tour of Japan in 2024, they enlisted Saya and Takashi of Tenniscoats to be their backing band. The pairing might have seemed a bit of a disconnect at first as the Tenniscoats sparse, loose, and lo-fi approach differs greatly from the precise, well-sculptured feel of Krgovich’s work. The concerts went well enough that the four musicians decided to make a record together. They booked a couple of days at an artist retreat housed in a century old house in Kobe and the result was a charming record titled 
To understand Thank You Kirin Kiki, the ambitious and stunning debut album from jazz and ambient multi-instrumentalist 
Nick Prideux’s cover image is a perfect summary of the music found within. A window is open to a sun-dappled vista: placid sea, beckoning island. A light breeze causes the curtains to billow while a young woman takes a languid nap, or simply lies on a bed, daydreaming. The outside represents the future, the adventures that wait for us when we’re ready; the inside is an invitation to luxuriate in the moment while sinking into a reverie of the days gone by.
“Evil is very real and having its way, and love is also real and hasn’t lost yet.”