Corbie Hill

An argument is circular.  So, too, is Ramsey Thornton’s song about one. The chiming fingerstyle guitar, the jazz-educated percussion, and the vocal melodies of “Chase After You” double back on each other, never quite resolving. There’s a clear sense of a damaged relationship circling the drain, neither party

“Ten Out of Nine” is a simple little love song. Over finger-style guitar and straightforward honky-tonk bass, Jack Studer sings an unhurried ode to his other half. The tune is a bit naive–she’s right most of the time, he says; if they fight, it’s his fault, he

“Heels” is a tale of insomnia, told patiently; until it’s not. Maddy Simpson and Mairead Guy of Sweet Petunia sing of lying awake all night, desperate for sleep and yet wary of recurring nightmares. In the end, “the stars, they fade. The streets start shining / Above the trees, the

Jeremy Ivey’s “Walk With Me” rides slow on ambling cowboy chords, all at once cinematic and intimate. Its sound is more western than most of Ivey’s new Its Shape Will Reveal Itself. Tape wobble distorts Ivey’s voice as he sings of modern confusion. It fits the moment–

The Lowest Pair’s Always as Young as We’ll Ever Be opens like a flower unfolding. Gentle drones whisper behind banjo and acoustic guitar as “Give it All Away” starts. “By now I wonder how the seasons always seem to take us by surprise,” Kendl Winter and Palmer T.