Jordan Adams

2 weeks ago | sevendaysvt.com | Jordan Adams

click to enlarge (Self-released, digital) Swirling mist clears on a verdant, windswept expanse. A woman in an embroidered, bishop-sleeved myrtle-green dress faces a rising sun. Invoking druidic ancestors while performing an arcane pagan rite, she sings of spirits, fairies, trees, primal femininity, death and magic long forgotten. Her name is Katy Hellman — at least in this lifetime.

2 weeks ago | buff.ly | Jordan Adams

click to enlarge (Self-released, digital) Swirling mist clears on a verdant, windswept expanse. A woman in an embroidered, bishop-sleeved myrtle-green dress faces a rising sun. Invoking druidic ancestors while performing an arcane pagan rite, she sings of spirits, fairies, trees, primal femininity, death and magic long forgotten. Her name is Katy Hellman — at least in this lifetime.

3 weeks ago | sevendaysvt.com | Jordan Adams

click to enlarge (Self-released, digital, vinyl) Hot on the heels of his monster 2024 LP, From Me to You, Burlington jazz trumpeter Connor Young's latest album, Here's to Now, is something of a return to form. On last year's outing, the composer left his comfort zone for a world of unvarnished acoustic folk music, delivering two hours of thoughtful, rootsy songs replete with lyrics, another shift in his modus operandi.

3 weeks ago | buff.ly | Jordan Adams

click to enlarge (Self-released, digital, vinyl) Hot on the heels of his monster 2024 LP, From Me to You, Burlington jazz trumpeter Connor Young's latest album, Here's to Now, is something of a return to form. On last year's outing, the composer left his comfort zone for a world of unvarnished acoustic folk music, delivering two hours of thoughtful, rootsy songs replete with lyrics, another shift in his modus operandi.

1 month ago | sevendaysvt.com | Jordan Adams

click to enlarge (Sipsman, cassette, digital) The term "slacker rock" has been generously applied to Vermont's Paper Castles — especially by writers for this publication.