Out April 19 - Steven R. Smith "Olive" LP from Soft Abuse. On Olive, Smith takes his singular musical vision and filters it through an ensemble arrangement largely performed by others that calls to mind Mark Hollis' eponymous solo LP and Gerard Busby's masterful 3 Women score.
https://midheaven.com/item/smith-steven-r/olive
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Out August 18 - Christopher Alan Durham & The Peacetime Consumers "Kicks Of Macabre" LP from Soft Abuse. Detroit-based DIY frantic anti-folk artist's debut LP, full of swaggering lower middle-class tragedy songs.
https://midheaven.com/item/christopher-alan-durham-the-peacetime-consumers/kicks-or-macabre
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