Tag: Jolie Holland

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For roughly half of the year I listened to everything, almost or near enough. Then I wilted, or the opposite of that, for come the summer I perked up in my stool and began to listen to summer ambiances like the chirping of birds, the splashing of hose pipes and water pistols or the sizzling of a barbecue. As...

Described as a 'spare little thing', on Wolf Dispatch the musicians Jolie Holland and Max Knouse pay tribute to Michael Hurley who died earlier this year at the age of 83. Cosy with the odd cackle of laughter and a suitable chill when their chosen material leads them to more feral or supernatural ends, the seven songs selected from...

It's an old saw by this point to suggest that while the livelihood of the average working musician has never been more perilous, the curious listener has at the same time never before had access to such an abundance of quality music, from nagging earworms to the experimental margins and everything in between. In a year that saw bubbling...