San Luis - Gregory Alan Isakov

LCM '#SongOfTheDay: ‘San Luis’ - Gregory Alan Isakov

Our next LCM featured artist South African born singer-songwriter Gregory Alan Isakov has been travelling all his life but currently calls Colorado home. His songs share a masterful quality which tell a story of the miles and landscapes, and the search for a sense of place.

Our featured track is the beautiful ‘San Luis’ taken from his recently released album ‘Evening Machines’.Gregory’s songs are deep lyrical masterpieces, with hints of his influences Leonard Cohen and Bruce Springsteen.

If you would like to see Gregory live, he is currently on tour with his London date on December 4th at the O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire.

Photo Credit: Little Green Eyes

https://gregoryalanisakov.com

Firesong - Carousel

LCM #SongOfTheDay: Firesong - Carousel

Our featured track today is the latest single from one of the finest young indie Americana Rock bands in UK. Based in Southend in Essex Carousel produce spellbinding live performances full of high quality songwriting, musicianship and super tight harmonies. Comparisons are now being made to another excellent fast rising group The Wandering Hearts. We love this latest classy and reflective track, which we think has the feel of Glen Hansard’s ‘Falling Slowly’.

It’s a very special day for the band as tonight it is the homecoming gig of their headline UK tour at Chinnery’s. Special guests include the LCM favourite the wonderful Lisa Wright. Don’t miss it :)

Photo credit: Jon Stone

https://www.seetickets.com/event/carousel/chinnerys/1220854

Olalla - Blanco White

Our next LCM featured artist is the excellent London based singer-songwriter Josh Edwards better know as Blanco White. We love his fusion of South American and European styles. For our LCM #SongOfTheDay we have chosen Josh's new single the wonderful 'Olalla'.

If you would like to see Josh and his band in London, they will be headlining at Village Underground on the 13th November. On the same tour Josh will be heading to the US, Canada and Europe. Catch him live if you can....and as a top tip check out his 'Colder Heavens' EP.

Blanco White started as the solo project of Londoner Josh Edwards in 2014. After studying guitar in Cádiz (Spain), and later the Andean instrument the charango in Sucre (Bolivia), Edwards’ aim was to begin bringing together elements of Andalusian and Latin American music alongside influences closer to home

In early 2016 Blanco White released 'The Wind Rose' via Yucatan Records, a self-produced debut EP. A second EP 'Colder Heavens' was later recorded in the Autumn, this time with producer Ian Grimble (Bear's Den, Matt Corby, Daughter).

Say Something Loving - Albert Man

We really love this new song and animated video 'Say Something Loving' from our next LCM featured artist and very valuable member of our LCM team, Albert Man. Albert released the single on Friday and will be hosting the launch gig in London at the 1901 Arts Club (nr Waterloo), London on the 7th February. Special guests at the launch include Hattie Briggs and Saarloos (Brian McGovern & Craig Gallagher). A shout out too for the excellent illustrations by Natalie Vondra with video editing by Albert Man. More new music coming very soon from Albert.....watch this space.

Tickets available here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/albert-man-say-something-loving-launch-night-hattie-briggs-saarloos-brian-mcgovern-craig-gallagher-tickets-41070940288?aff=efbevent

Praised by BBC Radio Head of Music as a “brilliant singer-songwriter,” Albert Man is an “insightful artist to watch” according to Pledge Music’s managing editor Matt Conner. He has established himself as one of the more interesting songwriters on the London gig circuit with avid support from RockShot Magazine, who recently compared his songs to that of “Ben Folds in verse, wit and chord changes”.

The Manchester-born, half-German singer-songwriter plays both solo and with a full band and delivers “stunning vocals” according to the Alternative Friday blog. He writes piano-led, melodic pop songs described by Fresh On The Net as “sweet piano led shenanigans that come over like the lovechild of Billy Joel and Adam Levine”.

Lyrics:
There's a look in your eye that sets me on fire
Makes everything feel alright
You keep blowing me out and I’m getting tired
I can’t sleep through these cold nights

You know I always wanna put you first
But I just seem to make it worse
We got a love that’s tearing us apart
And when I’m with you why do you pretend
Like we're nothing much more than friends
If there’s any room left in your heart

Say something loving
Say something loving

Are you gonna come back cos my heart don't lie
It's telling me it's too late
We’re losing all that we had but God knows you tried
To help fix all those mistakes

You know I always wanna put you first
But I just seem to make it worse
We got a love that’s tearing us apart
And when I’m with you why do you pretend
Like we're nothing much more than friends
If there’s any room left in your heart

Say something loving
Say something loving
Say something loving
Say Something loving
Won’t you say something loving

Futures - Darlingside

We thought you would enjoy this new time travelling video 'Futures' from today's LCM featured band Darlingside. After a very brief trip to London to headline at the Courtyard Theatre in Hoxton and perform at a AMA UK showcase last week, the guys are returning in the summer with a UK and Ireland tour with a date also at Cambridge Folk Festival. It's always brilliant to catch up with them and see them perform live. Twice in two days can't be bad. With the release of their new album 'Extralife' on February 23rd, we predict a very bright future for the band this year. Also watch out for the LCM album review coming soon. Therefore we have added Darlingside as one of our very worthy LCM 'Ones To Watch' in 2018.  

Darlingside are based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and feature the combined talents of Auyon Mukharji, David Senft, Harris Paseltiner and Don Mitchell. The video to 'Futures' was designed and animated by Mara Fradella and directed by Keith Boynton. 'Extralife' is available now for pre-sale either directly from the band's website or all good music outlets.

Your Ghost - Axel Flovent

We head to Reykjavík to meet our next LCM featured artist Icelandic singer-songwriter Axel Flovent. Now based in the capital Axel is originally from the northern fishing village of Húsavík. At its core Axel's contemporary folk music is acoustic, but also takes influences from indie rock, pop and electronic music. As a taster our LCM #SongOfTheDay is the atmospheric lead single 'My Ghost' taken from his latest EP Quiet Eyes' released in May 2017.