Caley Conway “when the ever-busy Milwaukee singer-songwriter finds herself caught in the humdrum duties of daily life. There are things to do—or not—people to see—or not—and the ones and zeros of technology to attend to. And then, suddenly, she’s off and dreaming, belly laughing with a distant friend or considering taking up “the work of birds.” When she comes back down to Earth, more often than not, she finds bliss in a comforting middle ground. “There aren’t enough hours in the day, I’ve counted,” Conway sings early in the record, before slyly adding, “For loving you.”
Dreams, and the sometimes lovely, sometimes painful realities that anchor them, are subjects Conway knows a thing or two about. The past decade has found her cutting a constant but elusive figure in the Milwaukee music scene and beyond, sharing local stages with Field Report and Julia Blair, sharing national stages with Phoebe Bridgers and Julien Baker, and releasing a steady stream of stellar solo work. Twenty-twenty-one’s Bliss Or Bust featured three tracks of wry, head-in-the-clouds indie folk. Only A Dark Cocoon, released in late 2022, untangled Joni Mitchell’s classic “The Last Time I Saw Richard” and reconfigured it into three original songs of hazy and jazz-inflected post-rock. Dusty country ballads and cheeky odes to cheese populate the discography margins.”
“Slow Country,” the latest single from Detroit-based singer/songwriter Conor Lynch, takes the listener to a cool, breezy place to help them forget their troubles and pass the ever-decelerating minutes. Structurally simple, the song sleepily glides through four quick vocal lines accompanied by fuzzy acoustic guitar tones and wistful pedal steel to amplify the calm and collected feelings evoked through the lyrics. Despite the textures of the track being rather thin, the instrumentation employed by Lynch only adds to this theme of simplicity. The line “Don’t know how long I can stay / ‘Least a minute lasts an hour in this place” perfectly articulates the feeling of sitting down with this gentle country jam – your troubles melting away for what feels like much longer than two and a half minutes. This feeling is amplified even further when watching the beautiful one-take music video that accompanies the single, in which the camera slowly pulls out from a close-up of Lynch to reveal a sea of bright orange trees perched on the edge of a Detroit cityscape. Lackadaisical, nostalgic piano notes fade in, mirroring the dominant guitar line as the song concludes, and all that’s left to do is hit replay for another few minutes of bliss.” –swimintothesound
“TWIN DEER, AN INDIE POP GROUP HAILING FROM DETROIT, IS KNOWN FOR BLENDING POWERFUL POETRY WITH IRRESISTIBLY CATCHY MUSIC. LED BY SINGER-SONGWRITER MEGAN MARCOUX, THE BAND'S UPBEAT SONGS CREATE A VIBRANT AND ENERGETIC ATMOSPHERE, MAKING THEM THE PERFECT SOUNDTRACK FOR A DANCE PARTY.
WITHIN THE TWIN DEER REPERTOIRE, YOU'LL FIND SONGS THAT DELVE INTO THE COMPLEXITIES OF LOVE, LIFE, AND LOSS, EXPLORING THE FULL EMOTIONAL SPECTRUM, AND OFFERING A PROFOUND AND RELATABLE MUSICAL JOURNEY. THE COLLECTIVE TALENT OF MEGAN MARCOUX, TOM SKILL, BILL KAHLER, AND ROB DUNCAN WEAVES A NARRATIVE THAT DEEPLY RESONATES WITH LISTENERS.”