The Weather Station - Humanhood - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

There's an obvious chemistry emanating throughout Ohmme's music that's so tangible it can only come from a decades-spanning friendship. Songwriters Sima Cunnningham and Macie Stewart formed their unbreakable bond performing throughout the fringes of Chicago's many interlocking communities, collaborating with titans from the city's indie rock, hip-hop, and improvised worlds. But together, along with drummer Matt Carroll, they've stretched the boundaries of what guitar music can do starting with the band's experimental 2016 self-titled EP and their adventurous debut 2018 LP Parts. Now their longstanding partnership culminates with the stunning and muscular follow-up Fantasize Your Ghost. Ohmme formed in 2014 as an outlet for Cunningham and Stewart to explore an unconventional approach to their instruments. InchThat's the whole genesis of the band us walking up to our guitars and saying, 'how can we make this noisemaker do something different?'Inch says Cunningham. But as their musical collaboration strengthened, bringing Parts and intensive tours with acts like Wilco, Iron & Wine, Twin Peaks, and more, the band's scope and focus has also broadened. Fantasize Your Ghost is the direct result of the band spending more time on the road than in Chicago, a record deeply concerned with questions of the self, the future, and what home means when you're travelling all the time. InchGrinding on tour last year for so long, it can alter your mental state where you have to think about your life in a different way than you would if you're home. A lot of the songs stemmed from just thinking about all of the possibilities that life could be and could take,Inch says Stewart. The commanding single Inch3 2 4 3Inch tackles the terrifying realization of needing to make a change. The song opens with the two singing in transfixing harmony, InchLooked in the mirror the other day / Caught my r

The third and finest album yet by Toronto artist Tamara Lindeman, recorded in France with Afie Jurvanen (Bahamas) and Robbie Lackritz (Feist), Loyalty crystallizes her lapidary songcraft into eleven emotionally charged vignettes and intimate portraits, redolent of fellow Canadians Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, and David Wiffen, but utterly her own. A diaphanous eeriness and harmonic and rhythmic tension contributes to a pervading sense of clock-stopping bloom and smolder, recalling the spooky avant-soul of Terry Callier’s Occasional Rain. She’s an extraordinary singer and instrumentalist—on Loyalty she plays guitar, banjo, and keys—but Lindeman has always been a songwriter’s songwriter, recognized for her intricate verse, filled with double meanings, ambiguities, and complex metaphors. Though more moving than ever, her writing here is almost clinical in its unflinchingly self-examining gaze and deliberate delivery, evoking similarly idiosyncratic songsters from Linda Perhacs to Bill Callahan. Lyrically, Loyalty inverts the language of confession, of regret, of our most private and muddled mental feelings, by externalizing those anxieties through exquisite observation of the things and people we accumulate, the modest meanings accreted during our most ostensibly mundane domestic moments. Album Tracks 1. Way It Is, Way It Could Be 3 39 2. Loyalty 3 59 3. Floodplain 2 49 4. Shy Women 2 47 5. Personal Eclipse 3 34 6. Life's Work 3 29 7. Like Sisters 4 40 8. I Mined 4 57 9. Tapes 4 16 10. I Could Only Stand By 3 15 11. At Full Height 2 21

2016 debut album from Sydney, Australia's With Confidence. The Australian pop-punk quartet are ready to become the next on the list of who's who pop-punk groups and will make their debut stateside on the Vans Warped Tour all summer long. Album Tracks 1. Voldemort 2. Keeper 3. Archers 4. We'll Be Okay 5. Gravity 6. Keys 7. Long Night 8. Dinner Bell 9. Higher 10. Waterfall