Bombon mallorquín, the second solo album of Antònia Font’s composer recreates the path that goes from childhood to the adult age. Joan Miquel Oliver has an extraordinary sense for melody and writes beautiful songs that are little stories for themselves. It’s astounding how he combines so different musical styles and the final result is still a homogeneous unit. Nostalgy and joy mixed will invade you while listening to the music. Bombon Mallorquín is moving. You’ll feel like at home…
Final Feliç [2:56]
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Baltimore’s Dave Heumann still pumps out elemental, minor chord Americana in the key of Will Oldham or Bill Callahan, and filters it through loud, doomy amps to make moody jams that could be mistaken for a beefed up Gordon Lightfoot, or Neil Young & Crazy Horse rocking through Blue Cheer’s gear. It’s a weird blend of power-driven grunge and melancholy: a fever dream that sweats out weary sadcore as it primitively pounds out acid rock drudge.
Jason Lymangrover, All Music Guide
Another Hiding Place [5:16]
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Paranoid Cocoon’s bedroom chamber pop spins with variety and subtle dissonances aplenty and is the strongest indication yet that Cotton Jones is ready to forge ahead with a unified new approach replete with more vintage instruments
Reed Fischer, Paste Magazine
Gotta Cheer Up [3:12]
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Paul Duncan’s third full-length bends plainspoken natural imagery and guitar folk through the surreal prism of experimental improvisation, taking a giant step up from 2004’s “Be Careful What You Call Home”. In his most fully realized musical statement yet, Duncan lets his fluttery, emotion-laden vocals float atop swooning densities of acoustic and pedal steel guitar, violins, brass and percussion, achieving the same sort of hyper-real transport as Grizzly Bear.
Harp Magazine
Parasail [6:34]
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