Karen Dalton - In My Own Time - I hadn’t listened to Karen Dalton before, and for some reason I was expecting her voice to sound a lot lighter and more frail from seeing pictures of her instead of being as rough and full-bodied as it is. some of the bigger arrangements sound a bit cheesy and mismatched, but the sparser moments are amazing, and everything in between is great too. looking forward to checking out her older recordings.
The Skygreen Leopards - Disciples of California - great but a bit too short. usually 35 minutes is a good length for me but I don’t know, whenever this album ends it seems kind of sudden, like in a “wait I thought I had music playing, where’d it go” sort of way. maybe if it felt more conclusive instead of just sort of trailing off at the end it would be better. but still a really good breezy folk-pop album.
Jon Mueller - The Whole- another one that’s great but too short. extended repetitive percussion jams that could go on for way longer than they do. any of the four tracks here could easily be filled out to the half-hour length of the whole album and that would probably be much more suited to Mueller’s intense and slow-building style. I doubt any of his albums will match how ridiculous and intense he was when I saw him live last year but this is still solid.
Sean McCann & Matthew Sullivan - Vanity Fair - probably the first Sean McCann-related album I’ve heard since I’ve been into him that hasn’t wowed me right away, but it’s been slowly revealing itself over the past few days during some evening walks. the slowed down and muffled statements kind of remind me of The Breadwinner at times.
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