Julia Kent - Temporal - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This stunning CD by award-winning Boston-based singer/songwriter Meg Hutchinson is her Red House Records debut and was produced by Grit Harmon. Only in her 20s, Hutchinson has already won numerous songwriting awards in the United States, Ireland and the UK, including renowned competitions of Merlefest, Mountain Stage New Song Folk Festival, Kerrville Folk Festival and Rocky Mountain Folks Fest. This powerful gathering of all-original songs confirms her as one of the great new voices of the next generation of acoustic musicians.

2022 . If you can't trust yourself, who can you trust? This is the crucial question at the core of Julia, Julia, the moniker for Julia Kugel, founding member of garage punk icons The Coathangers and the dream pop duo Soft Palms. On her first solo full-length album Derealization, Kugel shifts her focus from collaboration and band dynamics towards a singular artistic vision and private self-discovery. Steeped in the beguiling pop elements of her past work, Derealization is a meditative deep dive into the mind of a person struggling to understand a crumbling internal and external world. The album traverses a landscape of ethereal folk, atmospheric deconstructed pop, and dubbed-out country ballads, all centered around straight forward and direct lyrics. This juxtaposition of nebulousness and lucidity gives the album a sense of clarity emerging from the haze, an apt reflection of Kugel's personal growth and journey toward self-acceptance. Derealization is based on weaving the unreal, unsaid, and unknown into an undulating sonic fabric. Vocal layering and abstract instrumentation convey a blurred desperation to connect to an emotional and psychological focal point. Moody, dark, and sumptuous, the record is a flow chart of Julia Kugel coming into herself as an artist and songwriter. The album finds Julia playing almost all the instruments and taking her first stab at engineering at COMA, her and her husband's home recording studio in Long Beach, CA.

Italian-born, Manchester-based Julia Bardo started to gain attention at the start of 2019 with her debut single 'Desire' and bewitching live appearances as well as a stint as guitarist in one of the UK's buzziest bands, Working Men's Club. This debut EP - co-produced by Julia and Henry Carlyle Wade of The Orielles and mixed by Ali Chant (Aldous Harding/Cate Le Bon) - looks set to firmly establish her as an artist to watch. From the opening heartbreak ballad 'Into Your Eyes' which showcases Julia's striking vocals through to irresistible girl group-tinged chorus of final song 'I Wanna Feel Love' each song here sounds like it could be a classic and hints at what we can expect from her debut LP due later this year.1. Into Your Eyes2. Please Don't Tell Me3. Lonely Morning4. I Wanna Feel Love