Maeri Ferguson
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ALBUM REVIEWS: Ken Yates Offers a Soundtrack for Coping on ‘Cerulean’
Though what Ken Yates was going through while writing his fourth album, "Cerulean," may have been deeply personal, he ended up capturing universal truths with pinpoint precision. → Read More
Emily Scott Robinson Reimagines Shakespeare’s Witches
On the morning Emily Scott Robinson’s coven was to convene in Nashville to record her new EP, "Built on Bones" — a cycle of songs inspired by the witches of Shakespeare’s "The Tragedy of Macbeth" — she got a sign. → Read More
Tami Neilson Goes Feral for Statement-Making ‘Kingmaker’
To be “feral,” from the Latin word fera, meaning wild animal, is to be untamed, to escape domesticity. Though it may sound extreme, this is the state of being singer-songwriter Tami Neilson aspired to amid recording Kingmaker, out this […] → Read More
SPOTLIGHT: Anaïs Mitchell Comes Back to Her Own Story
EDITOR’S NOTE: Anaïs Mitchell is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for January 2022. Read more about her and her self-titled album, coming out Jan. 28, all month long. If you’ve ever been in the backseat of a taxi driving […] → Read More
SPOTLIGHT: Langhorne Slim on Slowing Down and Finding Sweetness in Solitude
EDITOR’S NOTE: Langhorne Slim is No Depression‘s Spotlight artist for January 2021. Look for more about him and his upcoming album, Strawberry Mansion (out Jan. 29), all month long. Langhorne Slim didn’t set out to make a pandemic […] → Read More
Brother Band Wayne Graham Goes Home to Tap into ‘1% Juice’
The brothers at the center of Appalachian folk-rock group Wayne Graham had something of a return to form at the start of making their latest record, 1% Juice. Kenny and Hayden Miles went back to the basement studio in their […] → Read More
Laura Veirs Taps into Solitude on ‘My Echo’
“In another space and time / California’s not burning / and the seas don’t rise,” Laura Veirs sings on her new solo album My Echo, her 11th. “I’ll meet you there and I / will remember the day / that […] → Read More
Sufjan Stevens Returns with a Message on ‘The Ascension’
If you’ve only known Sufjan Stevens for his breathy folk songs, imagine him now as a kind of pop cyborg recently touched down from some distant planet to warn us about the devastation we’re facing on Earth. This is the […] → Read More
Delta Spirit Joyously Reconvenes on ‘What Is There’
If you ever went to a Delta Spirit show, you’d find yourself amongst friends. Maybe not literally, but it always felt that way, communing with strangers and singing loudly, beers sloshing and cheers ringing out whenever a familiar guitar lick would start a new song. It has been five years since the fivesome parted ways, somewhat unofficially. And though that time apart resulted in an impressive… → Read More
Rockers Naked Giants Find Quieter Moments on ‘The Shadow’
The debut record, Sluff, from Seattle-based trio Naked Giants arrived like a bat out of hell in 2018, with a series of infamously rambunctious, sweaty live shows close on its heels. And while those thrashing dance parties may now be happening in isolation, the band’s follow-up, The Shadow, keeps them going in full force. As proven with the music video for single “Take a Chance,” created… → Read More
Music Transports Souls in M. Ward’s ‘Migration Stories’
From the opening track “Migration of Souls,” we are plucked out of our lives and placed somewhere mysterious and unknown, beyond this world. → Read More
James Elkington’s ‘Ever-Roving’ Eye Catches Wide Variety of Sounds
With Ever-Roving Eye, James Elkington freely draws from everything on that spectrum, from ’60s psych-rock to rootsy twang and spare folk music. → Read More
Jonathan Wilson Revisits His Roots on ‘Dixie Blur’
Dixie Blur is a tuneful display of Jonathan Wilson’s songwriting chops. Themes of homesickness, the fresh start of finding a new home, and nostalgia run through Dixie Blur. → Read More
Soccer Mommy Blends Brutal and Bright on ‘color theory’
Soccer Mommy’s 2018 debut Clean was our introduction to Allison’s distinct blend of brutal and bright. color theory is an album so honeyed it almost succeeds in masking its cloak of jet black darkness. → Read More
Starting Over Sets Son Little Free on ‘aloha’
When you hear the warm, lived-in voice of Son Little on his new record aloha, you’d never imagine the emotional turmoil he went through leading up to making it. A short time before he planned to begin the process of … → Read More
Andy Shauf Returns with Cinematic, Heartbreaking 'The Neon Skyline'
Breakup albums are a dime a dozen, but Andy Shauf’s is different. The Neon Skyline takes us along for the bumpy ride of heartbreak in all its minute and excruciating detail. Like he did with his 2016 breakout The Party, … → Read More
Born Ruffians’ Luke Lalonde Takes Wry View on ‘Perpetual Optimist’
EDITOR’S NOTE: In December, we like to take a look back at albums we didn’t get around to reviewing earlier in the year. The Perpetual Optimist was released in November. Despite the title of his new solo record, Luke … → Read More
New Album Extends the Beautiful Mystery of Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy
There is an air of mystery to Will Oldham, and it wafts through nearly everything he does as an artist, particularly as Bonnie “Prince” Billy. But in addition to that mystery, with I Made a Place, his first album of … → Read More
Bloodshot Records Celebrates 25 Years with Musical Love Letter to Chicago
Unbelievably, it’s been 25 years since the inception of Chicago’s iconic indie label Bloodshot Records. To those that know them, Bloodshot is as much a part of the fabric of its hometown as anything, but for those new to the … → Read More
The Deer Create a Blend of Pop with Uninhibited Beauty
After self-releasing their first few records, Austin, Texas, band The Deer have finally found a home. Their debut on the Keeled Scales/Secretly Distribution label Do No Harm may be one of the prettiest records you’ll encounter in 2019. A joyous … → Read More