New West

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").

Time In The Sun is the 4th full length album from Charleston, SC band Susto. The album was written and recorded in the midst of a lot of life changing events for lead writer/singer Justin Osborne. Like everyone around the world, Osborne was navigating the global issues felt from the pandemic while normal life continued with its own blessings and challenges.. <br/><br/>"We were navigating the global and national issues that everyone else was dealing with, but also I became a father and also lost my father. There was a lot of contemplation going on in my brain, a lot of personal evolution going on in my life, and songwriting was my way of working through it all. The title Time in the Sun is meant to be a monument to my own human existence and also a tribute to the human experience in general. I wouldn't claim to understand what it means to be a human, from the countless different perspectives of the world, but I do have my own experience to reflect on and I want to be able to express and explain that in some way. I guess this album is an attempt at that. At the core though, it's just a collection of songs about my life and my feelings."

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Wallflowers: Exit wounds 2021 [Digipack / CD]

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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]