iām not deep into folk so iām not totally sure of the specific vibe youāre looking for- but here are some new albums of women in folk iāve been loving :)
waysides by bedouine
pharmakon by humbird
fruit for flies by the army, the navy
i can by esha tewari
reveler by madison cunningham (more americana)
anything by gigi perez
anything by big thief or adrienne lenker (obviously)
angel olsen - big time
sheās coming to portland soon so i must prepare my mind
blondshell - docket (feat. bully)
blondshell and bully on the same song are you kidding me? what the heck?
june henry - anthems for a seventeen year-old girl
i didnt even know broken social scene was a thing
petey - i tried to draw a straight line
everything is fake
everything is fake
everything is fake
kimya dawson - viva la persistence
a simple dissertation on a complex situation
in no particular order & no particular genre: girlpool, jaboukie, ginger taylor, GFOTY, kilo kish, pom pom squad, alice glass, palomino blond, mommy long legs, cecile believe, dessa, sega bodega, quay dash, bratmobile
sheās pretty much the only youtuber i regularly consume nowadays, & āregularlyā is probably an overstatement because iām still trying to kill my addiction to short-form content.
anyway, she mostly makes fashion/style content.
what separates her from other āfashion influencersā is that her videos arenāt about over-consuming the new trend of the week, theyāre about how to tastefully style what you already own, build a quality & reliable wardrobe, & have fun with practical fashion.
i feel like sheās genuinely helped me spice up my wardrobe without doing a ton of shopping, but rather just by styling items in new ways :)
i was raised by two radically left parents who worked in the labor movement, & have adopted a lot of their sociopolitical views in adulthood.
i never remember them teaching me anything about politics as a kid, though. of course they discussed their jobs at dinner & occasionally expressed their feelings about elections in front of me, but they never sat me down & told me how the world was, why they feel the way they feel, or why i should feel the same as them.
i do remember them teaching me empathy. i remember them teaching me to think about how i might make someone feel before i said anything. i remember them teaching me to invite the kids who normally ate alone to come sit with me & my friends at lunch. i remember them teaching me that hurting somebody else is never going to help me.
from this basic education in human compassion, i came to believe that nobody should ever have to go hungry. i came to believe that nobody should ever have to sleep without a roof over their head. & when i learned that the ruling class was forcing masses of people to do those things, boom, there was radicalization.