New West

Wallflowers: Exit wounds 2021 [Digipack / CD]

I can do whatever I wanna all by my lonesome<br/>If that's a problem well you can't say shit<br/>Cause I'm going my way<br/>Livin' and dyin' - NIKKI LANE<br/><br/>From the first bass note within the driving drum beat you can tell something is different about the new record from Nikki Lane. The backbeat feels like a gutsy strut while the lead guitar feels like a revved up engine shifting gears. Denim & Diamonds comes out firing, spit shining the cowboy boots and tossing on a jean jacket.<br/>Produced by Joshua Homme (Queens of the Stone Age), Denim & Diamonds has the Highway Queen embracing a more rock-oriented sound while still maintaining the heartfelt outlaw country sound she has developed across her previous three releases. Denim & Diamonds still has the fuck-off flare of which Nikki has come to be known. Her stylized, story-telling lyrics are all there as well as her catchy country hooks. The outlaw country sound is now balanced out with a gritty guitar and a machine gun snare that echoes the sound of 70's rock.<br/>Nikki Lane has made a record that sounds new and old. Familiar and surprising. She embraces where she has come from, ("First High", "Born Tough") the lessons learned along the way, ("Good Enough", "Try Harder") all while doing things her way, ("Denim & Diamonds", "Black Widow").

Tasjan Aaron Lee: Tasjan! Tasjan! Tasjan! 2021 [Digipack / CD]

Bakom varje låt på det Nashvillebaserade psych-rockbandets album All Them Witches finns en, ofta outtalad, berättelse och erbjuder en nästan filmisk upplevelse insvept i framåtdrivande rytmer och subtilt funkiga låtar.<br/><br/>"As a band we pull from every moment that we experience," säger sångaren/basisten Charles Michael Parks, Jr. "our influence is not just music, it's our everyday life." <br/><br/>På deras album Dying Surfer Meets His Maker utforskar bandet rockmusikens vidder medan de baserar soundet på ett starkt låtskriveri. <br/><br/>"I like stripped down songwriters," säger Parks, "just a guy and his instrument. But on the new album, each song seems to change multiple times throughout; it makes a five minute song feel like a 20 minute song without the extra time being spent."

All Them Witches: Nothing as the ideal 2020 [Digipack / CD]

Legendariska Los Lobos är på något sätt det ultimata Los Angeles-bandet. Under snart femtio år tid har Los Lobos inte bara speglat LAs musikaliska eklektiska musikscen. De har i högsta grad bidragit till att skapa den. Med osviklig känsla, en aldrig sinande nyfíkenhet och gediget musikaliskt kunnande har de utforskat och integrerat rock 'n' roll och rhythm & blues, surf och soul, mariachi och norteña, punk och country i sitt sound. De har aldrig fastnat, aldrig stått stilla, alltid utvecklats och hela tiden haft ett alldeles eget uttryck.<br/> <br/>Los Lobos album "Native Sons" är en ömsint hyllning till hemstaden Los Angeles. Titelspåret är plattans enda nyskrivna låt, övriga låtar är favoritlåtar av LA-baserade artister som Buffalo Springfield, The Blasters, Beach Boys och Jackson Browne.

McMurtry James: The horses and the hounds 2021 [Digipack / CD]