What's New 5-2-25
One of country music’s most fearless storytellers marks another ambitious chapter in his groundbreaking career. Church has always championed the power of cohesive storytelling, and Evangeline vs. The Machine is no exception. “An album is a snapshot in time that lasts for all time,” Church shares of the creative approach behind the highly-anticipated new project.
Widely regarded as one of the foremost songwriters of her generation or any other, Suzanne Vega releases her first studio album of new songs in eleven years. "Each song on Flying With Angels takes place in an atmosphere of struggle", Vega notes, "struggle to survive, to speak, to dominate, to win, to escape, to help someone else, or just live".
Through much of her second album as Bombshell, Sabrina Teitelbaum’s weapon of choice is knowingly melancholic self-reflection fueled by thunderous, rhythmic guitar and soaring choruses. But despite the turbulence emotions, Teitelbaum keeps her sound tight and focused — giving the album enormous impact.
Want spans the existential, spiritual, and mundane; romantic to platonic to familial. It’s at once wildly ambitious yet piercingly relatable; all set to catchy melodies blended with pop instincts, country storytelling and the raw immediacy of a basement punk show. In other words, a classic Esther Rose album.
While The Scholars has some of the most expansive CSH songs to date, they know how to make each part of the journey compelling, filling the runtimes with unexpected turns and enervating hooks. And moments like the jaunty “The Catastrophe” show they haven’t lost their ability to write a short-and-sweet single that chimes like classic ‘60s folk pop, updated for the present.