Truly great songwriters hit people in a particular way - for some it's the sound of Neutral Milk Hotel's Jeff Mangum or Palace's Will Oldham. Others hear that extraordinary something in Bob Dylan or Neil Young - it can't easily be defined and is a power possessed by only the rarest of songwriters. It is bold to say, but 26-year-old Matthew Houck is one of them. As with the illustrious names above, behind Houck's songs lies nothing but the raw compulsion to write and play them, the fateful, joyful yearning...   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Ray Raposa had nearly finished this follow-up to 2005's First Light's Freeze when he was mugged at gunpoint outside his Brooklyn home. This climaxed a year of depression and nomadic, nocturnal dislocation for him. Appropriately, the album is based on a Hindu fable about being trapped in an inescapable fate, with death and the limitations of our physical lives closing in from all corners. But it isn't all darkness and peril; there's a strange sense of hope and delight in the brief moments of b...   [ read more ]

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During the writing and recording of Sleep With Heat, Carolyn Berk lived in Athens, Georgia, Boston, Massachusetts, and Portland, Oregon; the entire expanse of the touring musician's American highway. It is this relentlessness, this longing-turned-searching, that is woven into Sleep With Heat's tales of loneliness and heartache. Broke-down, hungover laments from motel parking lots and frozen foreign cities tell of the emotional labor of perpetual goodbyes, and of the simultaneous enchantment of someone who ...   [ read more ]

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