featuring the very best of americana, alt.country and roots music
June 15, 2025
Scott Foley, purveyor of dust
IF YOU ONLY LiSTEN to TEN RECORDS THiS WEEK
While we dearly miss the pace of last year's post-a-day, we feel no less invested in our mission of new music discovery. The first half of 2025 has brought us a wealth of stuff to consider for our First Half Favorites list. In compiling our top ten below, we began with a list of more than forty (40) records that have resonated with us over the past six months. The following appear in order of appearance:
Weather Station, Humanhood (Fat Possum, Jan 17)
Pigeon Pit, Crazy Arms (Ernest Jenning, Jan 17)
Fust, Big Ugly (Dear Life, Mar 7)
Jason Isbell, Foxes in the Snow (Southeastern, Mar 7)
Free Range, Lost & Found (Mick, Mar 28)
Brown Horse, All the Right Weaknesses (Loose, Apr 4)
Will Johnson, Diamond City (Keeled Scales, Apr 4)
Colin Miller, Losin' (Mtn Laurel, Apr 25)
Florry, Sounds Like ... (Dear Life, May 23)
Alan Sparhawk & Trampled by Turtles, Alan Sparhawk & Trampled by Turtles (Sub Pop, May 30)
If we're being perfectly honest (we are), in the next couple months, we're most looking forward to the release of albums by SG Goodman, Ryan Davis & Roadhouse Band, Ben Nichols, Ada Lea, and Greg Freeman. And Anna Tivel. You can see a complete, up-to-the-minute accounting of stuff on the horizon on our Routes & Branches Guide To Feeding Your Monster. Now, onto to process of building our favorites list for the second half of 2025.
ROUTES-cast June 15, 2025
^ Max Knouse, "Mint and Tobacco" Chipmunk'd Away (Jealous Butcher, Jun 13) D
- Janet Simpson, "Used to Be" single (Cornelius Chapel, 25)
- Ryan Davis & Roadhouse Band, "Monte Carlo/No Limits" New Threats From the Soul (Sophomore Lounge, Jul 25)
- Laura Stevenson, "I Couldn't Sleep" Late Great (Really, Jun 27)
- Mike Polizze, "Around Sound" Around Sound (Paradise of Bachelors, Jul 11)
- Julianna Riolino, "On a Bluebird's Wing" Echo in the Dust (MoonWhistle, Oct 24) D
- Trevor Sensor, "Heaven's a Big Disgrace" A Few Tears of Eros (High Black Desert, Aug 8)
- Hallelujah the Hills, "Superglued to You (ft Lydia Loveless)" DECK (Discrete Pageantry, 25)
- Kathleen Edwards, "Say Goodbye Tell No One" Billionaire (Dualtone, Aug 22)
- Iron & Wine, "Robin's Egg (ft I'm With Her)" single (Sub Pop, 25) D
- Kissing Other ppl, "Ashes of American Flags" Kissing Other ppl (Peacedale, Aug 8)
- James Yorkston, "A Moment Longer (ft Nina Persson)" Songs for Nina and Johanna (Domino, Aug 22)
- Los Straitjackets, "High Wire Act" Somos Los Straitjackets (Yep Roc, Sep 19) D
- Last Revel, "Go On" Gone for Good (Hassle House, Jul 18) D
- Jesse Welles, "Pilgrim" single (Welles, 25) D
- Joshua Ray Walker, "Keys to the Tacoma" Tropicana (East Dallas, 25) D
- Kashus Culpepper & Sierra Ferrell, "Broken Wing Bird" single (Big Loud, 25) D
- Margo Price, "Don't Let the Bastards Get You Down" Hard Headed Woman (Loma Vista, Aug 29) D
- Tyler Childers, "Nose On the Grindstone" Snipe Hunter (Hickman Holler, Jul 25) D
- Bones Owens, "Old Time Low" Best Western (Black Ranch, Sep 19) D
- Caroline Spence, "Where the Time Goes" Heart Go Wild (Spence, Aug 29)
- Otis Gibbs, "Eastside" single (Wanamaker, 25) D
- Gasoline Lollipops, "Tennessee Nights" Kill the Architect (ALP, 25)
- Patrick Sweany, "Ain't it Hell" Baby It's Late (Nine Mile, Aug 1)
- Murder by Death, "Sorry" Egg & Dart (MbD, 25)
- Yoshika Colwell, "In Bloom" On the Wing (Blue Flowers, Jul 25)
- Micah P Hinson, "Oh Sleepyhead" single (Ponderosa, 25) D
- Leon Bridges, "Hold On" single (Columbia, 25) D
- Jr Thomas & Eraserhood Sound, "By Your Side" Jr Thomas in the Eraserhood (DeepMatter, Sep 26)
- Mavis Staples, "Godspeed" single (Anti, 25) D
--------------------------
To enjoy any Spotify ROUTES-cast, just open Spotify and search for "routesandbranches" to access this most recent playlist, as well as many others from past months. Or click here for a preview:
No comments:
Post a Comment