Devonns - DevonnsThe Devonns dust off the golden age of 70's Chicago Soul with their self titled debut album on Record Kicks. Straight from the streets of Chicago, Illinois, The Devonns (pronounced "De vaughns") are the brand new soul outfit and the latest addition of the Record Kicks' family, whose self titled debut album that drops April 03, is an assortment of influences taking us back to the heyday of soul. Drawing influences from bands such as The Dramatics, The

Alfred Orloff cruises the bustling night-time streets

anthropologist John M

gigging extensively

and is a gloomy-post-punk masterpiece-a mediation on death

and raining lead

In this wonderful recording

he moved to Vienna for a year where

Tim Berne recorded for Intakt Records for the first time in 2019 as the saxophonist in Michael Formanek's Very Practical Trio with Mary Halvorson

Their performance is energetic

In musical terms

When fur trader McGrail gets trapped in the unforgiving Canadian wilderness

the Second Piano Concerto is an uncharacteristically light-hearted piece given the doom and gloom of the time