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Skipping Girl Vinegar - Keep Calm
Skipping Girl Vinegar’s album Keep Calm, Carry the Monkey has 12 tracks on it and all 12 are undoubtedly worth at least 3 back to back listens. The band shows talent and thoughtfulness that can be rare nowadays depending on where you’re looking. I personally loved this album because of the reach it had, the music was relaxing and exciting all at the same time and the singers voice was able to perfectly match the tone the band members were going for. The lyrics are all really interesting even to just read. I honestly can’t get enough of these guys! Definitely recommended to pretty much everyone! -Mariah Davis
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Blessed Feathers - Peaceful Beasts in an Ocean of Weeds
Jacquelyn Beaupre and Donivan Berube are a couple turned folk-duo hailing from south-east Wisconsin. Experimenting with banjo, guitar, piano sounds and vocal harmonies: Blessed Feathers creates a uniquely vivid sound on every track. Lovers of folk will not be disappointed by their new album ”Peaceful Beasts In an Ocean of Weeds”! And having teamed with producer Kevin McMahon, who has worked with Titus Andronicus and Real Estate, listeners can expect the same great quality of sound. Tracks #3 (Stinging Nettle and Honeysuckle) and #1 (By Song Through the Americans) are a must! -Anna Di Stefano0
Paul Banks - Banks
On Paul Banks’ debut album, Banks, he brings a new style to the rock scene while reminding us of some of rock’n'roll’s great pasttime achievements. With deep base grooves on the aptly titled The Base to start things off, Paul Banks takes us on a journey into his style of rock mixed with some funk grooves of hip hop to get the base pumping for all those who like to crank up their sound system and jam out. While just 10 tracks long and clocking in at only 40 minutes in length, Banks does what his name suggests and banks off of different ideas that musicians have used before him. This is not to say it’s not necessarily original since it still provides a cool easy listen when you fire up the disc. It just seems as though Paul Banks is trying to do too much here and experiment with too many things at once instead of finding one steady flowing sound that switches from time to time and makes for that stunning concept album which this album most certainly could have done with just a little more focus. -Matt Wylie0
