Favourite Five Recent Releases
Five of the best albums from the recent postings at Elsewhere. Music too good to let slide into the archives. The Elsewhere place if you're looking for a quick fix.
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RECOMMENDED RECORD: Womb: One is Always Heading Somewhere (digital outlets)
7 Apr 2025 | 1 min read
From time to time Elsewhere will single out a recent release we recommend on vinyl, like this one. Not because it comes in a gatefold sleeve (it doesn't), not because it has a lyric sheet (no to that also) but because it comes with a download code, which Elsewhere thinks should always included with the vinyl opeion If you pay out a wedge of money for a record like this (on transparent vinyl)... > Read more
Just Like Waves
Circuit des Yeux: Halo on the Inside (digital outlets)
31 Mar 2025 | 1 min read
Elsewhere came across Circuit des Yeux – 37-year old Chicago-based electro-rock practitioner and multimedia artist Haley Fohr – purely by chance about seven years ago. She was, as we noted in our review of her album Reaching for Indigo, one of the artists featured on a cover-mount CD which came with an issue of Uncut. We rarely listen to such albums but this one was... > Read more
Truth
RECOMMENDED RECORD: Alison Krauss and Union Station: Arcadia (digital outlets)
24 Mar 2025 | 2 min read
From time to time Elsewhere will single out a recent release we recommend on vinyl, like this one which comes with an illustrated internal sleeve with lyrics. Plays out nicely as two sides also. Check out Elsewhere's other Recommended Record picks . . . . It has been 14 years since the last Krauss album with her band Union Station, the impressive Paper... > Read more
Granite Mills
Jason Isbell: Foxes in the Snow (vinyl/digital outlets)
24 Mar 2025 | 2 min read
Recently divorced after a decade of marriage to bandmate Amanda Shires and clearly still feeling all the various emotions which such a life-changing event can wrought, singer-songwriter Jason Isbell puts aside his 400 Unit band and -- for the first time since leaving Drive-By Truckers almost two decades ago -- sits down with just an acoustic guitar. The result, recorded over less than a... > Read more
Crimson and Clay
RECOMMENDED RECORD: Reb Fountain: How Love Bends (digital and vinyl)
17 Mar 2025 | 2 min read
From time to time Elsewhere will single out a recent release we recommend on vinyl, like this which comes in a gatefold sleeve with lyrics and a bonus seven inch single of her versions of How Bizarre (see below) and the country classic The Gambler. Check out Elsewhere's other Recommended Record picks . . . . Those of us who have followed Reb Fountain from her early appearances in... > Read more