M. Sage - Tender / Wading Vinyl LP audio these new kids in town

these new kids in town rendered a safe-for-the-suburbs sound bleached of the hippie era's political strife

No Cities to Love not only reasserted Sleater-Kinney’s status as pioneers of modern rock but also captured the vitality and sharpness that made them a defining voice of the Pacific Northwest’s underground music scene

and while Skinner’s title uses the more conventional spelling of this Arabic word

she presents a sweetly funny flipside to the strikingly sad songs she writes

M. Sage - Tender / Wading Vinyl LP audio these new kids in townTender Wading finds Matthew Sage, aka M. Sage, returning to the foothills and pastures of Colorado, writing and recording in a patch of his homeland where each act of sympathetic care informs the next. Built primarily on piano and clarinet and embellished with guitar, modular synthesizer, percussion, and field recordings captured around his home, the album is a sweeping, serene vision of vitality, radical softness, and the reassuring sense of coming