Track Listings:
1 : Šibensko Powerhouse
2 : Šibensko Powerhouse (Live at The Bookhouse, London, December 2020)

Track Listings
1 : Crystal Doorknob
2 : In It Too Deep
3 : Like Hell Broke Away
4 : Do T Rocker
5 : So Many Rivers (The First Time)

This 5-song collaboration between artist Lonnie Holley and the latevisionary producer Richard Swift is a tribute to urgent, raw, Americanart - from Howlin' Wolf to Captain Beefheart, from Cecil Taylor to BoDiddley. The songs pulse with anger, hope, energy and a bit of swagger.You can hear sweat and tears through the speaker. Swift left us two yearsago today, but his spirit buzzes through these songs.During a West Coast tour with Deerhunter in late summer 2013, Holleywas put in touch with Swift by a friend who suggested using a day offon tour to record at Swift's National Freedom Studio in Cottage Grove,Oregon. Now rather legendary, Swift was in a breakout moment as aproducer having recently worked with artists like The Shins, Foxygenand Damien Jurado. Holley's essential debut album, Just Before Music,had come out the year prior. The cosmic connection between Holleyand Swift was immediate. They put down five songs in their daytogether: all conjured in the studio and one-of-a-kind.At the end of that day in 2013, Swift - always up until the wee hours -made a late night call to the friend who had set up the session. He waseffusive about the experience - thrilled to have found a kindred spiritin Lonnie Holley and thankful to spend a day crafting unclassifiable,extemporaneous and soulful music.

Track Listings
1 : Love Can't Be the Only Reason to Stay
2 : How to Begin to Say Goodbye
3 : If I Had Wings
4 : The Day I Lose My Mind

Le Ren's close-to-the-bone, heartbreak folk songs seem, at first, to tap into a shared musical memory. A melody swirls forward and you're just sure it's known to the back of your mind; was it in from a movie you saw, some classic mid-60s setpiece? Maybe it's something you heard as a kid, in the backseat of your mom's Cutlass, or the shotgun seat of your own. But before you can zero in through the fog, your heart is torn apart by her voice - rich, direct and mellifluous - steering you through these slowburn tunes about real-life loss. "Discussing songwriting feels the same as when someone asks about your tattoo," says Lauren Spear, 26, the sole voice and songwriter behind Montreal's Le Ren. "You're putting it out there, showing it in public right on your arm. Then, when someone asks you 'Hey, what's that tattoo mean?,' you're shocked to have to explain it, as it is a choice that feels essential for a particular moment." Two years ago, Spear's ex-boyfriend was killed in a car accident. Since then, she has been struggling with the immeasurable weight of being the sole keeper of their shared memories and in response, translated a sliver of that experience into music. Her EP, Morning & Melancholia, is a mediation on mourning, memory and how to live with the ellipses you're forever left with in the wake of loss. The way Le Ren is able to look tragedy directly in it's eyes and never let her voice so much as quiver is owed to a few things. Raised on rural Bowen Island, British Columbia, the isolated lifestyle allows for a certain independent dedication to craft that is evident in her performances. Spear has studied folk and bluegrass going back to her early teens, partaking in workshops and festivals all over North America. You can hear in her acumen the gorgeous folk formalism of Canadian heroes Kate and Anna McGerrigle. But it's not all rigor and acuity that makes Le Ren's music so stunning. She was also raised on The Holy Trinity of songwriters John Prine, Neil Young and Bob Dylan, and their curious, deadpan and cosmic approach to life's most brutal swipes also feed Le Ren's sensibilities. Her lyrical couplets are as simply put as they are devastating. "So here we are at the end of all things // I guess I learned too late // that love can't be the only reason to stay," she sings on the closer "Love Can't Be the Only Reason To Stay". It's gut wrenching, but sure-footed. And you can almost hear the slight smile on one side of her mouth as she sings, the knowing smile of someone who knows real pain, knows there's surely more to come, but who also knows it doesn't erase life's humorous, enduring beauty.