This news snuck up on us: The Nashville roots duo of Rebecca and Megan Lovell have a new album,
Bloom, coming in January - and they've already released four singles, each of them excellent. The album theme, says Megan, is "finding yourself, knowing yourself, and separating the truth of who you are from societal expectations." Rebecca says it embraces "the flaws and idiosyncrasies that make us real." The theme comes through in this song's lyric: "I'm a mockingbird / Singing a thousand songs / That don't belong to me ... But if you listen closely ... you just might hear ... my secret melody."
Continuing in the rootsy-bluesy-rock vein, we have this track from
Million Voices Whisper, the latest solo album from the Grammy-winning guitarist best known for his work with Gov't Mule and the Allman Brothers Band. We'll be adding several tracks to our Marvelous Mix, but our pick for the New Music Bin is this optimistic number. "I was in Montauk on vacation with my family over the 4th of July, and there was a full moon and fireworks. We were looking out over the ocean, and it was just this spectacle, this beautiful thing," Haynes
told Relix. "The next thing you know, I had this lyric that was all about moving forward and looking at life through a more positive lens, which is not a very typical lyrical approach for me."
Here's one of the many indie artists we keep following, featuring on our stream, and wondering why they aren't better known. This latest single is a new version of a song that frontman Kevin Bianchi originally recorded with his former band, The Chestertons, in 2017. "The new version is energized and full of vivid color and passion," Bianchi says. It features his brother Brian, who was also in The Chestertons, and vocal harmonies by Kelley Elle.
Another fine indie band, but new to our ears and playlist, is this trio from Traverse City, Michigan. Founded by high school classmates Savannah Buist and Katie Larson in the early 2010s, the band now includes drummer Katelynn Corll. This song is a co-write with Nashville singer-songwriter Mary Bragg.
U2: Evidence Of Life
We round out this week's New Music picks with another of the new/old tracks on
How to Re-Assemble an Atomic Bomb, the "shadow album" of unreleased songs from the two-decades-old recording sessions for
How to Dismantle... Yep, it sure sounds like classic U2!
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