A half dozen weekly fresh picks of tasty new music…
Nadine Khouri – Keep On Pushing These Walls
This is the second single release from the soulful singer-songwriter’s ‘Another Life’ album. A tribute to musical artist Lhasa de Sela, there is also a recent live clip worth checking out on YouTube offering an impressively controlled performance but I have opted for the official video in my link…
Personal Trainer – Milk
They’re an Amsterdam based rock band with a changing line up and in a classic kitchen sink indie style, here they are singing about drinking milk straight from the carton, charmingly grounded and frivolous…
Margo Price – Change Of Heart
A lovely stripped back version of a late 2022 single set to appear on Margo’s forthcoming ‘Strays’ album. She remains the driving force in cosmic country music today, this is top drawer…
Benjamin Clementine – Atonement
The music of Clementine seems to have matured into the pure, direct to the heart, elemental art form that it always threatened to be with his most recent album ‘And I Have Been’. There is something of the classic in this sparse, black and white video clip. Two thirds of the way through I started to suspect it is actually a live performance, it looks like that piano is really being played then, at the conclusion, a wonderfully unrehearsed moment leaves the viewer in no doubt…
Mary Halvorson – Night Shift
Jazz guitarist Halvorson is a captivating enough player as it is but her whole ensemble, especially the vibes player, are really on it during this live performance of the opening track on her ‘Amaryllis’ album…
OSEES – Scramble Suit II / If I Had My Way
Even on a YouTube clip these gassed-up garage rockers can make your ears ring, talk about plugged in…
Fruit Tree Records 