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Hailed by SPIN Magazine and Apple Music, Buffalo’s David Cloyd cements indie-music cult figure status with the release of Red Sky Warning, his first record in over a decade. Co-produced and mixed by indie-music polyglot Blake Morgan (Lenny Kravitz, Janita, Lesley Gore), this new record finds Cloyd hitting the same brilliant note his earlier work struck, but at a higher yet deeper emotional octave.
More than a feeling
Beck | Morning Phase
2 October 2025
Beck’s Morning Phase feels like standing and stretching in the Hollywood Hills at dawn. A through-line for all these records we’ve been talking about is just the feeling of them. Listening to each of these albums made me feel a certain way. That is what I was trying to capture more than anything else in Red Sky Warning. The way I write music is different than all of these artists, but they all influence my writing. And I don’t think my record feels like any of these records, but that deep relationship between the songs and the feeling is what
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One artist, one vocal, one guitar.
Nick Drake | Pink Moon
10 September 2025
Amongst the albums that influenced Red Sky Warning, Pink Moon is one of the weirdest outliers. And I would argue it’s the scariest of all of these records, namely because there really are only a handful of records that I can think of where it’s just one person and one instrument and that’s it. One artist, one vocal, one guitar, nowhere to hide. It’s like listening to someone walk a tightrope. Anyone who’s ever tried to record music should greet this album with the respect it deserves. Making my first album Unhand Me, You Fiend! was largely a reaction to
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Big without volume, a whisper in your ear
Radiohead | A Moon Shaped Pool
11 August 2025
As a devoted Radiohead fan, I always expect them to reinvent themselves when they release a new album, but this one really surprised me. Somehow, they got even bigger by getting closer and smaller. This album feels the most intimate and the most fearless to me, as if they’re letting the cat out of the bag and they have nothing left to hide. There’s another through-line for all these records we’re talking about. Maybe not Pink Moon as much, but definitely all of the other ones—they all have a very cinematic approach. There’s a feeling of place in each one
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The power of the album – a really curated and intentional set of songs
Glen Hansard | Didn't he ramble
6 August 2025
His [Glen Hansard’s] second solo album feels like a huge step forward into solitude within an even darker and cooler forest, with “Grace Beneath The Pines” literally placing you inside these troubled woods from the very start. “Her Mercy” is a trademark Hansard slow burn building up to a huge sing-along, but somehow his voice and songwriting feel like they’re coming from a more confident place, as if he’s sharing rather than shouting to get your attention. And “My Little Ruin” is a master class in creating intensity with restraint and space. It’s a much shorter album, and it’s less
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These are the songs I’ve written. It’s just me.
Glen Hansard | Rhythm and Repose
5 August 2025
It’s impossible that Rhythm And Repose is Glen Hansard’s first solo album, but it’s true. I’ve loved everything that he did with The Frames and The Swell Season, and of course the music from the motion picture Once, but this album somehow creates the illusion that this is the first time I’m ever hearing him. The songs have a new confidence and a deeper vulnerability, as if he’s finally giving up the ghost and showing us what he’s made of. He was in The Frames for many, many years, so if you’ve never heard The Frames, you should check them
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