So L'il!

Goodbye Better recording artists Khaya, Padden, Manny, Jenn, and Ben phone it in from Brooklyn, NY. So L'il is a psychedelic lounge folk band and so so so much more.

Songs:

The Ex-Prisoner / Spank Me Slowly / Follow That Bliss / Dear Whipping Boy / Fell On Us

Nick Krgovich (P:ano)

Nick Krgovich- known for his work in the fantastic pop band Piano, and more recently for backing up Rose Melberg- phones it in from Vancouver, BC. I thought he was joking when he said he was only going to play Stevie Nicks covers, but thankfully he wasn't.

Songs:

Angel / Sara / Storms / Gypsy / Say You Will

Talking at the end cuts off, finishes here.

Half-Handed Cloud

Half-Handed Cloud is an interesting phenomenon. John Ringhofer, the man behind the namesake, is as joyful and frugal as his music. An economical thinker, Ringhofer prefers the subway over a taxicab, is a recycler of plastic, a compulsive note-taker, and a habitual optimist. He doodles in the margins of National Geographic magazines, carries several different colored pens, and continues to use an antiquated CD walkman. When not on tour solo, as the trombonist for Sufjan Stevens Illinoisemakers, or as the occasional Danielson bassist, he lives rent-free in Berkeley California in exchange for his services as a custodian. His music encapsulates his struggle to make sense of his life. In Half-handed Cloud this is expressed as an all-consuming search for God. Half-handed Cloud is able to ensconce complicated theological concepts into playground song without condescending to his subject or to his listener.

Songs:

You Wouldn't Embarrass Me, Would You? / Foot on the Brake. / Everyone Did What Was Right in Their Own Eyes. / I Got a Letter. / Disaster Will Come Upon You, & You Will Not Know How to Conjure-it Away. / Picnic Few Want to Attend. / Bees are Trying to Build Their Nest in You. / You Get a Horseshoe. / Once, Twice, Seven Times a Werewolf. / Ten Commandment Tombstone. / Heb. 11:6 (Soul-Junk song) / Pressing into it. / I'm the Blinder. / Animals are Cut in Two. / We Don't Know How it Grows.

Miniature & Presidential / Yes, Please

Michael Dixon (Miniature and Presidential) and Lily Maring (Yes Please) phone it in from Olympia, WA. Solid tunes for lo-fi hearts.

Songs (M&P):

Leonard Cohen Cassettes / My Suitcase Friend / Millions If... / Tickly / Untitled

Songs (Y,P):

Flying Violently / Pony