The debut self-titled album from Cut, Split & Delivered is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. It has a tendency to come off as being an entirely organic endeavour; wrought in earnest with a passion for the kind of music the band want to hear. In that regard, the Cut, Split & Delivered is inherently folk music, without necessarily being folk music.
“Here’s to the times, we don’t remember,” sings Mat Hannah in the opening line of his new video, “Back To You.” Spoiler alert: it seems he remembers a lot more than he’s comfortable with. The title track from his recently released EP is all about a lopsided relationship and the hard lessons that come along with it. Continue reading Mat Hannah Shares the Hard Lessons That Left Him Better off on ‘Back To You’→
What happens when you cross Adele’s theme of 007’s Skyfall with the theme of one of Star’s albums? You get Laura Rae’s “Glimpses of Ghosts”; an airy reverb-infused piano ballad in the style of Agnes Obel. More haunting than haunted, “Glimpses of Ghosts” isn’t troubled nearly so much by voices in the dark, so much as the little voices that nag with “what-ifs”—the ghost of opportunity cost. Continue reading Laura Rae Mourns the Possibilities of Paths Not Taken on ‘Glimpses of Ghosts’→
