Treated myself to a bit of new stuff to listen to. Since Swell Season is not recording together, I got their solo stuff.
Glen Hansard has a new solo album out, Rhythm and Repose. The man is nothing if not full of angst and anguish. I think the cover art is rather van gogh-esque. All I’m saying.
Then, Marketa Irglova had a solo release, Anar, last year. Very much in her style too. I thought it interesting that the notes about Anar said “Irglova’s solo music brings to mind the piano-centered songs of early Joni Mitchell and Sandy Denny, with a bit of Enya’s studio atmospherics.” I don’t know about the last but certainly agree with the rest.
Neither came with any semblance of liner notes so it’s just you and the music.
