Album of the Month: Joe Pug – The Great Despiser

A couple of quick words about the latest album of the month, before it’s time to choose a new one (obviously one could and should write a master thesis or a novel about the greatness of this record). Anyway, Joe Pug’s second full-length The Great Despiser was a really easy choice for that album of the month slot on the right. The Great Despiser came out on Lightning Rod Records on april 24th and it was love at first sight.The debut album Messenger was already close to perfection (and the finest moments were perfect), but I’m loving this new one even more as a whole. Joe Pug from Chicago, Illinois is such a fantastic folk songwriter. The songs are instantly catchy and easy to enjoy right from the start, but they also hold a giant amount of lyrical depth & poetic devotion inside them. Without further ado, here are a couple of great examples of Joe Pug’s songwriting talent.

The Great Despiser:

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One of Many live at Guild Lounge:

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Joe Pug Website

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Treehouse – Top to Bottom

Treehouse released their excellent debut album Top to Bottom on 12th of may. This is country-flavoured pop perfection and one of my favourite Finnish releases of the year. Ok, maybe I shouldn’t get too excited at this point, because so far I’ve only spent one day with the album. But no, that’s not the way we work here at the onechord.net headquarters. I love to get excited about music and albums like Top to Bottom are the reason why this website exists. This just ticks all the right boxes for me. Wonderful vocals, sweet harmonies, beautiful melodies and stylish playing. And a banjo. I’m very much into albums like this or The Decline by Elvyn (obviously extremely useful to namedrop a Canadian band that only a few have heard around these parts of the globe, but everyone should, because The Decline is a masterpiece). Top to Bottom is already available on iTunes and Spotify. There’s a CD version as well, but I’m not sure will that hit the stores or is it only available on concerts / directly from the band. Here are two beautiful songs from the new album.

Treehouse Website
Treehouse at Facebook

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Mikael H & The Siberians – The President Of Venice Beach

I’m quickly going through the important things that happened while I was watching the hockey playoffs, because I’m way behind at the moment. One major event was that Helmi Levyt released the long-waited new Mikael H & The Siberians album The President of Venice Beach in mid-april. This one below is Friends from the new album. Visit their Soundcloud to hear more songs from the new album as well as old favourites.

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Mikael H & The Siberians Website
Mikael H & The Siberians at Facebook
Mikael H & The Siberians at Soundcloud

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