California singer/songwriter Jessica Pratt released her great self-titled debut in 2012 via White Fence's Birth Records imprint. On January 27, she'll release her new one, On Your Own Love Again, via Drag City.
She recorded the LP at home over the past two years. It was mixed in collaboration with Will Canzoneri.

Stéphanie Sokolinski better known by her stage name Soko (sometimes stylized as SoKo) is a French singer.
Her debut album is due to be released in February 2012 following the singles ‘I Thought I Was An Alien’ and ‘First Love Never Die.’
Nylon Interview:
With your focus less on movies these days, what other projects have been keeping you busy?
[My debut album] I Thought I Was An Alien is actually going to be released in the US on June 11, and then I'm finishing a new record in LA right now. It's called My Dreams Dictate My Reality, and I hope it's going to come out really soon.
Since you're already working on your second album, is it weird to be promoting your first album?
Oh yeah, I've totally moved on [laughs]. It's really weird, actually, because I feel like this first record was so personal and emotional and very dark and very sad, and it was very hard for me to perform it. I love playing shows more than anything in the world, but it had to be a very quiet audience and in very intimate venues; I couldn't play an intimate set singing about my father's death in front of drunk people. I'd have panic attacks, like, "I can't do this!" [The new album] is way less acoustic, it's super dream popish and some are almost post-punk.

Katie Crutchfield, aka Waxahatchee, will release her third LP Ivy Tripp on April 7 via her new home Merge (Wichita will oversee its international release). It follows 2013's Cerulean Salt.
Crutchfield produced the album with Kyle Gilbride and Keith Spencer (also of Crutchfield's sister Allison's band Swearin'), who also play on the album.
The album's title is “really just a term I made up for directionless-ness, specifically of the 20-something, 30-something, 40-something of today, lacking regard for the complaisant life path of our parents and grandparents," Crutchfield said in a press release. "I have thought of it like this: Cerulean Salt is a solid and Ivy Tripp is a gas.”
She added:
My life has changed a lot in the last two years, and it’s been hard for me to process my feelings other than by writing songs. I think a running theme [of Ivy Tripp] is steadying yourself on shaky ground and reminding yourself that you have control in situations that seem overwhelming, or just being cognizant in moments of deep confusion or sadness, and learning to really feel emotions and to grow from that...
I heard someone say that you have to be the change you want to see. I just want to be the kind of musician I want to see in the world. I want to present myself in a way that reflects that.

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Australian singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett will release her debut album Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit on March 24th through Mom + Pop Records.
The 11-track effort follows 2013’s excellent The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas. Recording took place at Melbourne’s Head Gap Studio with accompaniment from her backing band
Barnett says the album “follows me as a normal human with normal emotions. So there are great highs and great lows. They span everything in my life.”

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不久前刚刚加盟摩登天空的著名民谣乐队五条人，在阳春三月推出了重磅专辑《广东姑娘》。《广东姑娘》是五条人的第三张专辑，并且也是摩登天空bad head厂牌重新启动后的第一张出品。
五条人来自广东海丰，长居广州。他们的前两张专辑《县城记》和《一些风景》曾获得华语音乐传媒大奖等十几个音乐奖项，掀起了方言民谣的新潮流，大大拓展了中国新民谣的可能性，这是一支深情款款而又妙趣横生、野性十足的乐队。乐队以阿茂和仁科为核心，并加上新鼓手邓博宇。
新专辑包含了十三首歌。最大的变化是不像以往以家乡话（海丰的福佬话）为主，这次国语歌曲占到一半份量，尤其是主打歌《广东姑娘》、《晚上好，春天小姐》、《像将军那样喝酒》等均为国语，不过也不乏《猪母上山咬老虎》、《请到老祖宗》这样的五条人招牌的方言趣怪奇葩之作；另一变化是加进了电吉他，整个音乐风格为之大变——而一以贯之的是优美的旋律。
阿茂和仁科表示，增加国语歌曲并非刻意为了扩大接受面，因为他们自己平常讲的最多的还是国语——当然是外地口音的国语——而有些故事和题材本来也更适合用国语表达。而“广东姑娘”不仅仅是一首主打歌的名字，也是整张专辑的一个概念——表达一种特别的关于“广东姑娘”的文化情感。
另外值得一提的是，五条人的好基友、上海的顶楼的马戏团乐队也在这张专辑的数首金曲中慷慨献声。
春节大年初三，他们在老家的小县城海丰举办了一年一度的“五条人回到海丰演唱会”，而这一次他们破天荒地搭建了舞台和演出空间，观众人数爆棚，首批200张新唱片也销售一空。而这也是他们新专辑全国巡演的一次预热，从四月三日开始，五条人将展开第一轮全国巡演。让我们洗耳恭听，拭目以待！

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