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February 20, 2022
Scott Foley, purveyor of dust
I'll be honest, it's been a helluva year for new music so far. Not sure if that's because we're paying closer attention, but it certainly bodes well given my lifelong fear that people will eventually run out of new music. We do our very best here to feature precisely thirty new songs every week, raging against the dying of the light. You're welcome.
Really, big thanx to all those blogs listed on this page, without whom I would know a lot less about new music. We're especially grateful to those bloggers who take the time to write original reviews, those who don't simply copy 'n paste from press releases. You're doing god's work (and, tbh, some of my work as well).
Onward to this week's ROUTES-cast. Always feel free to reach out to routesandbranches@gmail.com with your own discoveries and such: What are you listening to? What are you reading? Why do blogs seem so alarmed when artists pass away? Isn't that what happens to us all?
- Sarah Shook & the Disarmers, "Stranger" Nightroamer (Abeyance, 22)
- Massy Ferguson, "Fire of Life" Joe's Meat and Grocery (North and Left, 22)
^ 49 Winchester, "Annabel" Fortune Favors the Bold (New West, May 13) D
- Bailey Bigger, "You Somehow" Coyote Red (Madjack, Mar 25) D
- Jason Scott & High Heat, "Ft Worth" Castle Rock (Scott, 22)
- Orville Peck, "Daytona Sand" Bronco (Columbia, Apr 8)
- Erin Rae, "True Love's Face" Lighten Up (Good Memory, 22)
- Crane Like the Bird, "Andy (feat. Sam Beam)" single (CLtB, 22) D
- Good Looks, "Vision Boards" Bummer Year (Keeled Scales, Apr 8)
- Bright Eyes, "Haligh Haligh a Lie (feat. Phoebe Bridgers)" Companion EPs (Dead Oceans, May 27)
- Phosphorescent, "I'm a Mess" single (Calldown, 22) D
- Hurray for the Riff Raff, "Pointed At the Sun" Life on Earth (Nonesuch, 22)
- Jonah Tolchin, "Car You Drive" Lava Lamp (Yep Roc, Jul 15) D
- Widowspeak, "The Jacket" The Jacket (Captured Tracks, Mar 11) D
- Fantastic Negrito, "Highest Bidder" White Jesus Black Problems (Storefront, Jun 3) D
- Whiskey Myers, "John Wayne" Tornillo (Wiggy Thump, Jul 29) D
- Shovels & Rope, "Collateral Damage" Manticore (Dualtone, 22)
- Aaron Raitiere, "Dear Darlin'" Single Wide Dreamer (Dinner Time, May 6)
- Brennen Leigh, "If Tommy Duncan's Voice Was Booze" Obsessed With the West (Signature Sounds, May 6) D
- Avi Kaplan, "First Place I Go" Floating On a Dream (Fantasy, May 20) D
- Rhyan Sinclair, "Where I'll Be Found" Letters to Aliens (Sinclair, Mar 4)
- Grant-Lee Phillips, "All That You Can Dream" All That You Can Dream (Yep Roc, May 20) D
- Laney Jones, "Stories Up High" Stories Up High (Tone Tree, May 20) D
- Kill County, "Crashing Down" All That Remains (573668 Records, 22)
- Delines, "Hold Me Slow" Sea Drift (Jealous Butcher, 22)
- Madi Diaz, "New Person Old Place (feat. Courtney Marie Andrews)" Same History New Feelings (Anti, Mar 4)
- Sarah Borges, "Lucky Day" Together Alone (Blue Corn, 22)
- Hailey Whitters, "The Neon" Raised (Pigasus, Mar 18)
- Have Gun Will Travel, "Buyer's Remorse" single (Burke, 22) D
- Big Thief, "Blue Lightning" Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You (4AD, 22)
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