New Music 2021

For 2021 releases so far I am enjoying:

Arlo Parks - Collapsed in Sunbeams
The Pretty Reckless - Death By Rock & Roll
The Hold Steady - Open Door Policy
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Carnage

Also introduced myself to The Tragically Hip who I've being meaning to check out for some time. Fantastic band.
 
This is a rerelease from an album released in 1974.

Rodger Wilhoit - When I Climb Back Up To Living

Country music has chased piety, poetry, and much else, but The Social World is unapologetic hardcore, beer-sodden country music reduced to it's core values. No faking. No pretension. Spare, unornamented, and straight from the heart, the songs on the "Social World" of Rodger Wilhoit are all that's holy and true in beerhall country music. The instrumentation is only as full as it needs to be. The singing is careworn and deeply sincere. There's nothing tentative or lukewarm in Wilhoit's music. It isn't going to meet you halfway. It seems that there's always more to discover. Most copies of Social World and Rodger's singles were probably sold off the bandstand 40 or 50 years ago. They were among the thousands of records by local artists on local labels sold off local bandstands all across the country. Most ended up in garage sales, thrift shops, or landfill. But every so often, an artist will be resurrected, and find a new audience. Rodger Wilhoit is one such singer. At a time when most mainstream Nashville country music sounds so contrived and empty, it takes an artist like Rodger Wilhoit to remind us what it's really all about.

 
This is great. I love this. Basically has most of the good things I like about music. Twangy guitars and the Teenage Fanclub sound.

The Feelies-inspired Scottish/Spanish duo The Boys with the Perpetual Nervousness released their sophomore effort in early February, a 10-song, 26-minute collection of seamless pop-rock that does their namesakes proud. Andrew Taylor (Dropkick) and Gonzalo Marcos (El Palacio de Linares) recorded their parts in Edinburgh and San Sebastián, respectively.

The Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness - Play (On My Mind)

 
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