Jeremy Fisette

1 day ago | beatsperminute.com | Jeremy Fisette

In this episode, we get to meet Uwade. Uwade is a Cailfornia-by-way-of-North Carolina singer-songwriter who has just released her debut album, Florilegium. You may have – like I did – first encountered her, though, as the first voice on the opening track of the last Fleet Foxes record Shore, called “Wading in the Waist-High Water”.

2 weeks ago | theneedledrop.com | Jeremy Fisette

Hi there! Welcome to TheNeedleDrop.com’s newest segment, Today's Release Highlights, where we will highlight a smattering of new releases out each week. This week, the writers here – not Anthony himself, it should be noted – have compiled 8 albums like to shout out and hope they don't slip by you. UK sludge trio Conan have returned with their seventh album, Violence Dimension, which is out today via their new label Heavy Psych Sounds.

3 weeks ago | beatsperminute.com | Jeremy Fisette

In this episode, we get to meet singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer Valerie June. Here, Valerie and I go deep into her brand new record, Owls, Omens, and Oracles, including the themes, production, and writing of these genre-defying songs. We touch on music history, including Appalachian and Delta folk music, as well as the concept of being positive or optimistic in times like these.

4 weeks ago | beatsperminute.com | Jeremy Fisette

In this episode, we get to meet Daughter of Swords, aka Alex Sauser-Monnig. Alex just released a brand new solo album under their Daughter of Swords moniker, appropriately titled Alex, and in this chat, we discuss the record at length, including its varied themes (of both personal and societal contexts), the creation of the record, and also the huge aesthetic shift from their first Daughter of Swords record, Dawnbreaker.

1 month ago | theneedledrop.com | Jeremy Fisette

Influential instrumental rock band Tortoise have not released new music since their 2016 album The Catastrophist, itself their first album in seven years at that point. But now, all of that has changed, as the band has just released its first new music in nearly a decade. "Oganesson" is out now, with a video animated by Rob Shaw. Watch/listen below:Tortoise formed in 1990, and were early purveyors of the "post-rock" sound, although their music incorporated several intersecting genres.