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NEWS: Love Police announce new record label

Posted on October 20, 2021 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

Love Police, the touring company led by Brian Taranto and responsible for some of the most memorable alt-country, Americana and folk music tours of the last two decades, has joined forces with Dave Laing (Dave Laing Publicity, Warner (and Warner’s revival of Festival), Shock Records, Dog Meat Records) to started a record label called Love … Continue reading →

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NEW MUSIC: River Dreams – Landscape

Posted on October 17, 2021 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

River Dreams take a step closer to the release of the debut album Small Paintings, due out in 2021. The nom de plume of Sydney songwriter/band leader Carl Manwarring, River Dreams is nuanced songwriting par-excellence. There are elements of dark folk rock, alt-country, and a rolling and evocative, baroque indie rock sound in his songs. … Continue reading →

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NEW MUSIC: Tanya Ransom – Breakdown To Breakthrough

Posted on October 8, 2021 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

West Australian songwriter Tanya Ransom has a brand new EP out called Breakdown To Breakthrough and today we’re featuring the title-track which possesses one of those magical choruses that lifts the song skyward, soaring on a beautiful melodic run. The art of doing that while singing about troubled times is what makes it that much … Continue reading →

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Check out the video for the new single from Matt Joe Gow – Go Ahead, Celebrate

Posted on September 24, 2021 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

Melbourne-based New Zealand songwriter Matt Joe Gow has released a brand new single ‘Go Ahead, Celebrate’, bringing a ray of optimistic sunshine to this shitshow of a year, a clarion country call to celebrate… like we used to. Gow nails the requisite uplifting mood and yearning for good times that a song title like that … Continue reading →

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Mike Etten releases his new psych-folk single ‘Saints’

Posted on September 16, 2021 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

The New York songwriter Mike Etten has released his new single ‘Saints’, taken from his forthcoming new LP Love Wash, October 1st. We’re really impressed with the sound on this, the way he blends a dreamy, rhythmic psych-folk sound with added synths etc. Earlier this month he also released the video clip for the song … Continue reading →

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NEW MUSIC: Mitch Dillon’s Compulsive Ramblers – Do You Want Me To Forget?

Posted on August 30, 2021 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

I first came across Mitch Dillon‘s work with another of his bands – Attractor Beams. There he had a superb garage rock meets The Replacements sound. Here he doesn’t travel a great distance from that sound but it is a more distinct alt-country feel. ‘Do You Want Me to Forget?’ is less parched and brittle, … Continue reading →

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NEW MUSIC: K. Walsh – Party Of One

Posted on August 24, 2021 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

Ripper of a track from Sydney, yet another top shelf release from the Evening Records crew. K. Walsh (Kevin to his mum) treads a finely balanced line between country and the interesting side of rock music. There are strummed electric guitars and walking bass lines mingling with handclaps, psych guitar sounds and most rewardingly, some … Continue reading →

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NEW MUSIC: David Garnham and the Reasons to Live – Holding Pattern

Posted on August 20, 2021 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

I’m a big fan of David Garnham‘s music; the way he can dial into straight and true folk music and then shift gears to the open highway of an alt-country song with his band (the Reasons to Live) in full flight. The latter is perfectly executed on this new track, ‘Holding Pattern’. The song swaggers … Continue reading →

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NEW MUSIC: Looch Lewis – Free Dirt

Posted on August 20, 2021 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

Sydney musician Looch Lewis has released a cover of Died Pretty’s ‘Free Dirt’, the last track on their 1988 album Lost and strangely the title of their previous album though the song didn’t appear on it. The original featured Don Walker on piano and Astrid Munday on backing vocals. Lewis stays true to the original, … Continue reading →

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NEW MUSIC: Tyler Key – Wild Azaleas

Posted on August 3, 2021 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

Tyler Key (Athens, GA)has just released his album Wild Azaleas And Other Tall Tales, making this song the title track of sorts. I just love this kind of sound – that rolling country rock sway, burnished by a warm and melodic vocal that winds its way through the verses and lifts into a gentle anthem … Continue reading →

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NEW MUSIC: Tim Easton – You Don’t Really Know Me

Posted on August 2, 2021 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

Here’s the first single from Tim Easton‘s new album of the same name, due out on August 27th. We’ve got a heap of fond memories of seeing Tim perform down here in Sydney and at the Dashville Skyline Festival in the Hunter Valley. Such a brilliant songsmith, live performer and guitarist who knows deftly navigate … Continue reading →

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NEW MUSIC: Nick Watt – Chimes in the Wind

Posted on July 26, 2021 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

Brooklyn singer-songwriter Nick Watt released his new album a few weeks ago and one of its highlights is ‘Chimes in the Wind’, a Cohen-esque folk ballad that won us over with metronomic and percussive finger-picking, warm bass notes and his austere and rich vocal intonations that add the requisite drama and forlorn mood to the … Continue reading →

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NEW MUSIC: Harvey Russell – Gave You Flowers

Posted on July 23, 2021 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

Harvey Russell’s latest single ‘Gave You Flowers’ rounds out the highly successful campaign for his 2019 country music album Liquid Damage. ‘Gave You Flowers’ kicks along with a honky tonk twang and country rock swagger as he details the well-intentioned but ultimately failed efforts of making up for bad behaviour. Russell’s band The Widowmakers provide the requisite quick-footed, toe-tapping swing and … Continue reading →

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NEW MUSIC: The Deltaz – I Went Away Too Much

Posted on July 20, 2021 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

Man I love this track. It’s all in the rhythm, the way it leans back, pauses, drops the gears and takes off again down the highway with the sun in the rear view mirror. Simple melodies and structure executed perfectly with that snaking groove and cosmic, laidback vocal. Superb! This is The Deltaz second single … Continue reading →

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NEW MUSIC: Iain T. McKelvey & The Midnight Tangos – Raise Your Wine

Posted on July 20, 2021 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

Evening Records out of Sydney town are slowly but surely building a wonderful roster of artists and releases, the latest of which looks to be Iain T. McKelvey and the Midnight Tangos. ‘Raise Your Wine’ has a wonderfully warm and rolling feel to it. Circling around the piano (Carl Manwarring of River Dreams), the guitar … Continue reading →