Family Stereo - The Thread Format:Blue Vinyl LP A companion to 2016's private

A companion to 2016's private country rock overview Cosmic American Music

2022 marks the 20th anniversary of the passing of James Stinson and the releases of the Transllusion and Shifted Phases albums

while also interweaving historical context via traditional songs

Two years since DJ KOCO aka SHIMOKITA curated his sold-out Mr Bongo Brazil 45 boxset

slanted rhythms

Family Stereo - The Thread Format:Blue Vinyl LP A companion to 2016's privateA clear sense of confidence in restraint radiates out of the debut album from Blake Watt, the London based singer songwriter who records as Family Stereo. The pleasure lies in the delicacy of measure on The Thread, an album of folk tinged and brush stroked reflections on distance and connection that majors in an evocative kind of narrative economy, suggesting rather than telling its stories. Inviting, dynamic and subtly cinematic, its artfully crafted