Fresh Tracks

**HIGHLIGHTS****Best swamp sound born out of the desert: Lonesome Shack: Desert Dreams**Best revival of the Seattle soul scene: The Dip: The Dip Delivers**Best analog Rock ‘n’ Roll sound for the modern age: Bloodshot Bill: Come Get Your Love Right Now**Best catharsis in musical form: Martin Frawley: Undone at 31**Best master...

**Best musical version of digging in the dirt: Michael Chapman: True North**Best way to trip around the cosmos in less than an hour: Y La Bamba: Mujeres**Best Beachy Garage Rock for your trip to Big Sur: Harlem: Oh Boy**Best Radiohead Jazz cover: Jack Kilby and the Front Line: Love Is...

February 5th, 2019**HIGHLIGHTS****Best modern alt-twang crooner: Steve Gunn: The Unseen In Between**Best sonic layer cake and rock ‘n’ roll mom: Sharon Van Etten: Remind Me Tomorrow**Best role model for young rockers: Madame Gandhi: Bad Habits Compilation**Best chameleonic singer-songwriter since Beck: Daniel Romano: Finally Free**Best most amazing surprise following a 37...

**HIGHLIGHTS**Best modern crooner and female Hozier: Lena Elizabeth: Get It Right**Best slow ride on the soul train: Liz Brasher: Painted Image**Best 3 decade run (so far): Juliana Hatfield: Weird**Best pleasant surprise: Captain Gravitone and the String Theory Orchestra: A Universe Parallel to Our Own**Best millenial old soul bluesman from New...

**HIGHLIGHTS**Best collision of prettiness and soulfulness: Lula Wiles, What Will We Do**Best reason to still like country music: Alice Wallace, Into the Blue**Most genre confused (Am I at a Dharma talk? Am I at the club?): Mindmassage: Shivers**Best debut: Olga Solar: AntilullabyBAND / ALBUM / LABEL / GENRE500 Miles to...

**HIGHLIGHTS**Best modern facsimile of raging in the Hollywood punk scene in 1981: The Flesh Eaters, I Used To Be Pretty**Best perpetual grab bag of gorgeous sound: Gabe Goodman, Dismissing the Gardener**Best soundtrack to a heart-broken cross-country drive: Bob Sumner, Sings Wasted Love SongsBAND / ALBUM / LABEL / GENREAndy Bassford/The...

**HIGHLIGHTS**Best Reissue from a classic band I’ve never heard of: Redd Cross, Teen Babes from Monsanto**Best revival of a classic band sound everybody’s heard a lot of (the Dead): Cordovas, That Santa Fe Channel**Best split personality release: Todd Burge, 1986: The First Album/Your Reflection Will Kill You**Best lesson not to...