For Japanese American songwriter Lea Thomas, indie folk serves as a bridge in which she makes sense of the world within herself and within nature. Her first record, Want For Nothing, saw Thomas utilizing an honest approach to folk for self-reflection, while 2018’s acoustic Part Of This Place EP and 2019’s ambient-folk collaboration Blue of […]
Scribbled in notebooks and locked away in hard drives for years, the love songs on Land Lover are not new to yllwblly (Boston-based self-taught musician Mark Tseng-Putterman). A near five years following “the collapse of a formative relationship in 2015,” yllwblly has finally decided to revisit those sentimental memories by bundling them up in the […]
There’s a certain charm in the nighttime that’s hard to explain. It may be that calming feeling that you get when the world slows down from its bustling pace, or that sudden stillness in the night. As you gaze out into the night sky with the muted sounds of the city murmuring outside your window, […]
Liance is an intrepid wanderer. Just one listen to any of his projects–whether that’s The Golden Flesh EP or his debut LP Bronze Age of the Nineties–and you’ll hear how clearly his many life experiences have shaped his music. And it’s no wonder: James Li, the 23 year-old British-Chinese songwriter behind Liance, has spent most of his life […]