ALBUM REVIEW: Daughter of Swords' Alex Sauser-Monnig Uncovers New Sounds on 'Alex'

Amelia Baker delivers her austere songs with the sober bearing of someone imparting fateful news. For a decade the California native, who records as Cinder Well, has excelled at an unadorned brand of folk that rewards full attention, performing spare tunes in a gently commanding voice. Teasing deeper meanings from

Gary Stewart upended the Nashville scene in the mid-‘70s with a string of fierce honky-tonk singles powered by his wild abandon. Hits like “Drinkin’ Thing,” “Your Place or Mine,” and “She’s Actin’ Single (I’m Drinkin’ Doubles)” carry the same electric charge on the first hearing or

Let’s get this right out of the way: Despite what the name implies, no accordions were harmed, or even used, in the making of Slow Accordion’s eponymous debut. What is present on this record is an intoxicating, purely improvised conversation between four seasoned players operating on pure instinct.