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Jens Kuross - Crooked Songs (Woodsist) [Singer Songwriter]
"there is an unpolished candour throughout the album, the antithesis of LA’s studio botox, photoshopped press shots and social media neediness"
The Slow Music Movement
Sep 232 min read


Shrunken Elvis - Shrunken Elvis (Western Vinyl)
"this album will satiate the outsider demands of old heads and provide a gateway to the counter cultural sounds of fifty or sixty years ago for a new generation"
The Slow Music Movement
Sep 92 min read


Himmelskip - Salongrifle (Die With Your Boots On)
"the boys get busy with some melancholic lone riding Americana, which then proceeds to flirt shamelessly between spaghetti western soundtrack and thinking rather than head banging rock."
The Slow Music Movement
Aug 202 min read


John Swanke - Horizon Lines (Bud Tapes)
insistent acoustic motifs twist in on themselves, hypnotising all those within earshot before fading out to let the drone have its moment in the sun and show off it's lysergic charm.
The Slow Music Movement
Jul 42 min read


Max Knouse - Chimpmunk'd Away (Jealous Butcher)
“Chrysanthemum” goes all suitably flower power, paving the way with petals for the title track’s creamy acid-folk
The Slow Music Movement
Jul 32 min read


Duke Garwood - Satin Warrior (God Unknown)
the LP with a bang and an insistent groove, with Garwood’s one man jazz funk horn section, haunting guitar atmospherics and spoken words conjuring a swampy, noirish jazz blues vibe, something of a recurring theme
The Slow Music Movement
May 302 min read


there is only - there is only (Self Release)
Just as you think he might be laying his hat in more folky terrain he's off on an electroacoustic, voyage full of precision placed and played micro-sounds that gives folktronica a cosmic Americana injection
The Slow Music Movement
May 152 min read


Tracy Chow - Postcards From a Dying Dream (Self Release)
She’s had a nice line in ambient Americana for the last ten years, with numerous EPs and albums exploring the genre, at the same time as forming and fronting Once Great Estate who plough a more traditional Southern Americana furrow. She’s living the Americana dream.
The Slow Music Movement
May 92 min read


Cameron Knowler - CRK (Worried Songs)
If acoustic guitar and the folk sound of America are your thing then look no further.
The Slow Music Movement
Apr 132 min read


The Slow Music Movement Radio Show #83
The Slow Music Movement Radio Show is back after a seven month hiatus, and about time too....
The Slow Music Movement
Apr 112 min read


Pan American, Michael Grigoni - New World, Lonely Ride (Kranky)
adding an air of universal mystery and cosmic shimmer to the virtuoso guitar interplay
The Slow Music Movement
Apr 91 min read


Quiet Cowboy - Ambient (Declared Goods)
to explore the horizontal star gazing, universal consciousness pondering end of the Americana spectrum
The Slow Music Movement
Apr 31 min read


Aux Meadows - Draw Near (Eiderdown)
drift off into deeper ambient reflection, lonesome six string laments, pleasantly distorted ambient guitar and genteel acoustic folk,
The Slow Music Movement
Mar 181 min read


Cameron Knowler - Secret Water (Worried Songs)
The tune itself has a pleasing simplicity which belies its polite insistence and hypnotic qualities
The Slow Music Movement
Mar 81 min read


The Color Forty Nine - We Send Satellites
as sun baked ambling Americana meets unhurried country, classic vibes hang out with the outsiders
The Slow Music Movement
Feb 42 min read


Dead Bandit - Glass (Quindi)
whose sound unhurriedly wanders around distressed Americana, rusting soundscapes and Fentanyl addled Post Rock plains
The Slow Music Movement
Jan 171 min read


Tuomo & Markus with Verneri Pohjola - Division Street (Grandpop)
There's something in the water in Finland, or perhaps it's just the long dark winters that encourage indoor pursuits like practising your...
The Slow Music Movement
Nov 15, 20242 min read
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[Life goes on] Lone Mesa - Dirt Park (Worried Songs)
The LP is a walk on the ambient side of Americana, the first half being more recognisably structured acoustic folk musings
The Slow Music Movement
Nov 8, 20241 min read


Bad Flamingo - The Devil Knows (Self Release)
They have an enviably consistent line in swampy Americana, often with a toad licked edged that defies easy categorisation
The Slow Music Movement
Nov 3, 20241 min read


Michael Scott Dawson - The Tinnitus Chorus (We Are Busy Bodies)
this latest gentle joy is no exception; it’s a start to finish then start again listening pleasure.
The Slow Music Movement
Sep 10, 20242 min read
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