Samara Joy- PortraitLabel: Verve Released 10 11 2024 Born out of her time on the road, Samara Joy took her touring band into legendary Van Gelder Studios in February of 2024. This record, appropriately entitled Portrait, is a collection of standards (as well as one original) and features her singular voice, alongside arrangements from this tight knit young group. The recording tells the story of the community shes created with a new generation of young players and is

Chapter 24

Beloved by those initiated

The sinister ha-has that open "Birthday Pony

as it turns through moods as disparate as the droning dread of Hammer-esque organ fugues and the far-out tribal mysticism of some of Lucio Fulci’s more exotic resurrections

State Champs surges with the energy of The Finer Things (2013)

Label: Limited Run

and heavier'

Fate Of Criminals

A Patient Man

Rex and The Sweet

as journalist Jason Heller put it

The musical content is more obviously melodic