Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
Laura Marling was discovered on MySpace at a very young age and her first album, Alas, I Cannot Swim, came out when she was only eighteen. The album – despite being shortlisted for the Mercury Prize (losing to The Seldom Seen Kid by Elbow) – only made it to 45 on the UK Album Chart and failed to chart in the US.
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k-os - The Trill: A Journey So Far
The Trill: A Journey So Far is a compilation album from k-os, the Canadian singer-songwriter/rapper that already put out two other albums this year.
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Natalie Imbruglia - Come to Life
Australian singer-songwriter Natalie Imbruglia became an international star in the late nineties with the song “Torn” and the subsequent album, Left of the Middle, sold in excess of six million copies worldwide.
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Sarah Blasko - As Day Follows Night
As Day Follows Night is the third full-length album from Australian singer-songwriter, Sarah Blasko. Her last album, What the Sea Wants, the Sea Will Have, won an ARIA Award for “Best Pop Release” in 2007. The ARIA Awards are the Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards and Sarah Blasko has been nominated seven times since she released her debut EP in 2002.
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Regina Spektor - Far
Far is Regina Spektor’s third major label release and, counting her self-released efforts, brings her total number of full-length albums to five.
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Jenny Owen Youngs - Transmitter Failure
Jenny Owen Youngs is an indie folk rock singer-songwriter from New Jersey. Her song “Fuck Was I” played in the first episode of the second season of Weeds and boosted her popularity more than tenfold…if you know her music there’s a good chance it’s because of that song.
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Bertie Blackman - Secrets and Lies
Australian singer-songwriter Bertie Blackman continues to evolve musically on her third album, Secrets and Lies, by focusing more on keyboards and electronic sounds in much the same way that she displaced the folk elements with rock on her second album.
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Alessi’s Ark - Notes From the Treehouse
Alessi Laurent-Marke is one of those young girls that put some of her folk songs up on MySpace and got handed a record deal. She is also a female singer-songwriter from the British Isles, and, by default, joins the ranks of artists like Laura Marling, Amy Winehouse, Emmy the Great, Adele, Lily Allen, Kate Nash, Duffy and KT Tunstall.
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Julie Doiron - I Can Wonder What You Did with Your Day
Julie Doiron is a Canadian singer-songwriter and she has been making albums regularly for close to twenty years. Her latest solo release is I Can Wonder What You Did with Your Day and the sound on this one is more electric than acoustic.
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Mirah - (a)spera
Mirah is an indie singer-songwriter from Portland, Oregon and her page on Last.fm states that she is: “modest and deliberate, preferring privacy to invasion and reconciliation to war.” What is that supposed to mean?
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