Soulful Sunday

MARYSE SMITH – Massachusetts’ Songstress Entrances With Acoustic Piece ‘FREEDOM’

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Reveries for the laziest day of the week

27 July 2025


Press photo by Brendan J. McInerney

Artist: MARYSE SMITH
Who: Singer-songwriter based in Martha’s Vineyard, MA from Massachusetts. Maryse spent some years in Vermont writing songs, now she does the same on Marthas Vineyard. She detailes the interpersonal relationships that define our lives in surprisingly staightforward ways. She winds her words around common themes with just enough of a literate twist. Smith has, so far, released 3 albums.

Track: FREEDOM
From her newest
album, Transience.

Acoustic guitar melancholia
Appealing, entrancing voice.

Instagram – Bandcamp

CASSANDRA JENKINS – American Songstress Stirs With Instrumental Piano Piece ‘DELPHINIUM BLUES’

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20 July 2025

Artist: CASSANDRA JENKINS
Who: Songstress who was born into a musical New York family. Her parents played on cruise ships in the 1980s.[4] She learned how to play the guitar and sing at a young age. Before the age of 12, she toured with her family band playing folk music at festivals.

Track: DELPHINIUM BLUES
The first single of her upcoming ‘instrumental concept album’.
A companion one to last year’s ‘My Light, My Destroyer’ LP.

Enjoy this stirring piece of piano splendour.

Instagram – Linktree

WOLF ALICE Drop Introspective Power Ballad ‘THE SOFA’ From Their New Upcoming Album

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13 July 2025


New album artwork

London‘s guitar pop stars WOLF ALICE revealed details of their new,
4th longplayer 2 months ago. It’s named The Clearing and will show
up on August 29th.

Following the peppy lead single Boom Baby Boom
we get a second appetizer with the introspective power
ballad THE SOFA.

Ellie Rowsell (frontwoman) “It’s about not trying so hard to figure everything out,
reflecting on getting older and trying not to agonize over things that have or haven’t
happened in your life. It’s also about trying to get to grips with the polarizing aspects
of one’s life when you’re in a band.

You’ve just played a huge tour and you come home, and you have your dinner on the sofa.
For me, it’s summed up in how I treat TV. I used to never watch the same thing twice because
I thought I’ve got so much to discover! And now I’m like, It’s OK if I just want to rewatch Peep Show for the 13th time.”

Have a seat, Ellie.

Instagram – Tour Dates

BIG THIEF Have Wonderful Single ‘INCOMPREHENSIBLE’ Out – New Album In September

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29 June 2025


Press Photo by Genesis Báez

It’s already 3 years since Brooklyn‘s folk-pop-rockers BIG THIEF released their
5th LP, titled Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You. An enthralling
20-track record with Adrienne Lenker‘s angelic voice as the star.

But great news for the fans (including myself). Number 6,
named Double Infinity is ready to be shared with the world
on September 5.

The first single Incomprehensible is a wonderful and soulful musing.

Instagram – Spotify

PAUL WELLER Covers BEE GEES’s 1968 Pearl ‘I STARTED A JOKE’

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15 June 2025


Press photo by Dean Chalkley

At 67 PAUL WELLER is one of those enduring artists with a high percentage of music in
his blood. Following his angry young man years with The Jam and five LPs with his posh project The Style Council he started his top-ranking solo career in 1992. Since then, he has released 17 albums.

And #18, named El Dorado, is out on July 25th.
It’s a covers album (tracklist below). One of them
is the Bee Gees‘ 1968 pearl I STARTED A JOKE.
Weller‘s take is classy.

PAUL WELLER

BEE GEES

TRACKLIST

01 “Handouts In The Rain” (Richie Havens)
02 “Small Town Talk” (Bobby Charles)
03 “El Dorado” (Eamon Friel)
04 “White Line Fever” (The Flying Burrito Brothers)
05 “One Last Cold Kiss” (Christy Moore)
06 “When You Are A King” (White Plains)
07 “Pinball” (Brian Protheroe)
08 “Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire” (Willie Griffin)
09 “I Started A Joke” (Bee Gees)
10 “Never The Same” (Lal and Mike Waterson)
11 “Lawdy Rolla” (The Guerrillas)
12 “Nobody’s Fool” (The Kinks)
13 “Journey” (Duncan Browne)
14 “Daltry Street” (Jake Fletcher / PP Arnold)
15 “Clive’s Song” (Hamish Imlach)

WELLER: Instagram – Linktree

NEIL YOUNG Duets With Beach Boy AL JARDINE On Romantic Gem ‘MY PLANE LEAVES TOMORROW (AU REVOIR)’

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1 June 2025

AL JARDINE, the now 82-year-old, former beach boy co-vocalist/co-founder
has no plans to retire. He just released a 4-track EP titled Islands In The Sun .

It’s his first new music since his 2010 LP, named
A Postcard From California. Actually his only
solo album.

It features two tunes written by Jardine himself, and two reworked
versions of The Coasters’ Leiber/Stoller classics ‘Smokey Joe’s Café’ and
‘Crumple Car’.

One of the two Jardine written songs, a romantic tearjerker named MY PLANE LEAVES TOMORROW (AU REVOIR) features vocals by living legend Neil Young and a short trumpet moment by Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea. Their parts were already recorded during the ‘Posctard From California’ sessions, but Jardine only finished the song recently.

Have a listen. It’s a beauty.

The whole EP is a nostalgic beauty.


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Jardine will play a handful of gigs with his Pet Sounds Band this summer.

7/04 – Lake, MN @ Mystic Amphitheater at Mystic Lake Casino Hotel
7/18 – Cohasset, MA @ South Shore Music Circus
7/23-24 – Phoenix, AZ @ Musical Instrument Museum
8/23 – Des Plaines, IL @ The Des Plaines Theatre
8/24 – St. Charles, IL @ The Arcada Theatre
9/05 – Atlantic City, NJ @ Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa
9/07 – Concord, NH @ Chubb Theatre at Capitol Center for the Arts

Instagram – Facebook

NEIL YOUNG And THE CHROME HEARTS Talk To The Trees

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25 May 2025

Every NEIL YOUNG fan (including me) knows for a couple of months now, that their
79-year-old rock idol has recorded an album with his new band The Chrome Hearts .
It’s namedTalkin’ To The Trees, and shows up on June 12th.

Press info: “Talkin To The Trees is a personal and powerful album featuring ten new compositions by Young. “Big Change”, the first song from the album, was released in January 2025, with a message that left no doubt where Neil Young stands in these challenging times.

The Chrome Hearts are Spooner Oldham (Organ); Micah Nelson (Guitar and Vocal); Corey McCormick (Bass and Vocal); Anthony LoGerfo (Drums); with Neil Young (Guitar, Harp, Piano, Vibes). The album is co-produced by Lou Adler and Young, and recorded at Shangri La Studios in Malibu.”

Following the racy lead single Lets Roll Again we can enjoy a vintage,
heart of gold ballad with the LP’s title track TALKIN TO THE TREES.


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NY: Archives

PETER DOHERTY’s Balloon Is Out Of Tune

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18 May 2025

Since PETER DOHERTY got clean and living in France with his wife and big dog, far away from the temptations of party cities he became quite productive, releasing albums with one-time outfit Puta Madres, with French musician Frédéric Lo and with his first-and-forever band The Libertines he scored one of the best albums of 2024 with All Quiet
On The Eastern Esplanade.

And last Friday he launched his 3rd solo longplayer, named Felt Better Alive .

The Independent (British newspaper) says: “These new songs are charming, callous,
witty, boorish, tender, transcendent and obnoxious by turns or all at once. Doherty remains
a charismatic scene evoker – even though you can’t follow the thread of all his tales, he still makes you feel you were there.”

One of the jaunty tunes is OUT OF TUNE BALLOON
(great song title, lol). A playful pub ditty for all.

FULL ALBUM


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Instagram – Linktree

BRIAN ENO And BEATIE WOLFE Enchant With 3 Beauties From Their 2 Upcoming Collaborative Albums

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Daily electricity to load your batteries

11 May 2025


Photo by Cecily Eno

Former Roxy Music alien BRIAN ENO and songstress BEATIE WOLFE met for the first
time in 2022 at the SXSW festival. They met again while exhibiting visual and conceptual art pieces in London and began recording together early last year.

The result is not one, but two albums, named
Luminal and Lateral, both out on June 6th.

Eno/Wolfe: “Music is about making feelings happen. Some of those feelings are familiar,
while others may not be—or may be complex mixtures of several different feelings. There
are many beautiful words for such feelings in other languages and cultures—words that
don’t exist in English.

By giving a feeling a name, we make that feeling more likely to be felt, more tangible.
Art is able to trigger feelings, or feeling mixtures, that we’ve never quite felt before. In
this way, a piece of Art can become the ‘mother’ for a type of feeling, and a place you
can go to find and re-experience that feeling.”

Listen to the three atmospheric, enchanting and
musing beauties they shared recently (so far).

– WHAT WE ARE –

– SUDDENLY –

– BIG EMPTY COUNTRY –

ENO: Linktree
WOLFE: Instagram