John Amen

With Holy Smokes Future Jokes, Blitzen Trapper releases a 10th set of engaging songs, replete with potent lyrics and enthusiastic instrumentation. The project — available on vinyl at independent record stores on Sept. 18 and widely released on all formats Sept. 25 — opens with “Baptismal,” a multi-genric blend of sounds

Drawing from a range of folk and country sources, Canadian singer-songwriter Colter Wall offers Western Swing & Waltzes and Other Punchy Songs, adopting and claiming as his own the perennial personas of the rambling man, the cowboy, and the unapologetic outsider. The opening track, “Western Swing & Waltzes,” is

Blanco White’s new album, On the Other Side, is singer-songwriter-multi-instrumentalist John Edwards’ most integrated project, the culmination of a style introduced on previous singles and EPs, including 2018’s The Nocturne. Like his possible progenitor David Gray, Edwards navigates themes of romance and loss, vocals infused

With his self-titled solo debut, Sam Doores, formerly of The Deslondes and Hurray for the Riff Raff, offers hooky melodies and evocative soundscapes, reconfiguring approaches associated with a wide array of genres, including big band, jazz, and traditional country. In terms of production, spearheaded by Anders “Ormen” Christopherson, the

It’s slightly annoying that Frazey Ford’s lyrics are frequently indecipherable. That said, her voice and melodies are so uniquely compelling that her verbal content almost seems incidental. She could be singing stats from an actuary table, and I’d probably still be on board. Additionally, the musicians who

Emerging in the 2000s with a series of EPs and then his first full-length album, The Ledges (2014), Noah Gundersen drew from the atmospherics artists such as Gregory Alan Isakov and the melodic and vocal sensibilities of Ryan Adams, lyrical proclivities ranging from the quotidian to the apocalyptic. If