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Austin's Caroline Says is set to follow up one of the most beautiful records of 2018 with her new Ohio River EP, coming November 22nd on Western Vinyl. She talks about the gorgeously wistful title track, which was inspired in part by Springsteen and a Steely Dan classic:

Taken from Caroline Says' beautiful No Fool Like An Old Fool LP, out now on Western Vinyl:

Chicago's Jessica Risker shares the gorgeous title track and tone-setting opener from her new album, out this spring on Austin label Western Vinyl. "I See You Among the Stars" is a drifting psych-folk lullaby that feels like a comforting, faintly twinkling beacon and guiding light for a love that has veered off course, ultimately meeting a more ominous and melancholy fate...

Brooklyn's Nicole Schneit aka Air Waves shares the gorgeous album-closing reverie from her excellent new record Warrior, out next month on Austin label Western Vinyl. Although the dreamy, vaguely Beach House-esque "Blue Fire" is about change and all the anxiety that it can create, there's a poignant hopefulness here that tends to just radiate from all of Air Waves' best songs... Read Mor

Austin's Caroline Sallee aka Caroline Says follows up one of our favorite songs of the year -- the softly sparkling "Sweet Home Alabama", thankfully not a Skynyrd cover -- with another absolutely lovely track from her forthcoming album No Fool Like An Old Fool, due next month on Western Vinyl...

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith shares the first single from her new record The Kid, out in October on "twilight colored double vinyl" via Western Vinyl:

Here's the most calming, dreamlike track you'll hear today: saxophonist Joseph Shabason, who you know from his work in Destroyer and as part of brilliant Toronto band DIANA, shares the first single from his beautiful new solo record Aytche, out this summer on esteemed Austin label Western Vinyl...

Video directed + animated by Andrew Benson aka Pixlpa. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith's beautiful EARS LP is out now on Western Vinyl.

"Low-end might be associated with thunder, or the sound of a mother's heartbeat as heard from inside the womb, or an approaching stampede, or earthquake. Low-end generally indicates something bigger and more powerful than you" — BotanyDimming Awe, The Light is Raw is the expansive new full-length from DFW native and current Austin resident Spencer Stephenson, aka Botany...

Here's a moving new jam from Nicole Schneit, aka Air Waves, taken from her beautiful, long-awaited forthcoming full-length Parting Glances. In the past, we've used phrases like "casually poignant" and "world-weary" when describing Schneit's lovely way with melody, her familiar, worn-in voice, and her often subtly heartbreaking turns of phrase, and that all certainly applies on