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Edsel Axle — Variable Happiness (Worried Songs)

Photo by Asia Harman

Variable Happiness by Edsel Axle

We’ve come to know the Philadelphia indie artist Rosali through her clarion Americana-tinged songwriting and the thumping primitivism of her punk trio the Long Hots. We have not, up to now, considered her closely as a guitar player, which is perhaps short-sighted since she does that in both bands. Here she brings the electric guitar up to the front, taking up a glove laid down by Bill Orcutt, Bardo Pond, Loren Connors and others. Over six tracks as Edsel Axle, she improvises jagged rock riffs and electrified acid folk, just her and a guitar and a four-track, but definitely plugged in.

Rosali’s band has a couple of other worthy guitar players in David Nance and James Schroeder, so one faulty assumption might be that the Neil Young-ish flavor on 2021’s No Medium came from them (Nance’s solo and band work leans that way as well). But here, by herself, and not burdened by the need to sing, Ms. Middleton demonstrates that she, herself, has a bit of the Crazy Horse fixation. These songs sound like the instrumental freakery between verses on Ragged Glory or Sleeps with Angels. The guitar carves out giant, resonating figures in the opener “Some Answer,” letting the long notes ring out, then splintering them into buzzing, disintegrating feedback hum. This opening salvo is the most rock and least folk leaning of the six, with a keening wail vibrating under lapping layers of distorted melody. You can hear bits of Loren Connors in the way rage and beauty coincide here, a roar in even the most tranquil, pensive moments. 

The title track runs a little cooler, building contemplative space out of steady picked patterns and resonating threads of melody. This one has the quiet assurance of certain Steve Gunn instrumentals, eschewing pyrotechnics for a clear, unobstructed line of sight. It’s also manifestly a solo piece, without looped or overdubbed embellishment. By contrast, “Come Down from the Tree” is denser and more dizzying, punctuated with loud, echoing chords and letting flurries of quicker notes linger in insect hives of buzzing overtones. It reminds me a bit of Bright, a band I hadn’t thought about in years, for its sun-dappled balance of clarity and mystery. If you look past the lack of voice and flute, you might also hear a little Bardo Pond here, the howl of feedback like an undertow beneath long-toned serenity.

These tracks are all relatively lengthy, all built around repeated motifs and without conventional song structure, yet they are consistently engrossing. There’s an abstract, chaotic beauty in these evolving compositions, the fire that you normally find between Rosali verses let loose on its own terms.

Jennifer Kelly

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can we get some more most wanted counter parts?

you   absolutely   can   get   some   more   !   here's   some   other   ones   you   can   use   for   inspo   ! let us know if more are needed ! you can find them under the cut since it got a little longer !

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Latest drink and drug drivers named in south London courts

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Drink and drug drivers have been caught by police on our roads.

We publish this information in the public interest, as drink and drug drivers can cause serious injury or death to themselves or others.

The names and details of those included below is provided to us by magistrates' courts in south London based on criminal court proceedings.

Here is a round-up of those who have been named in south London magistrates' courts:

VEIBENA ARMADA

Aged 44, of Garratt Lane, Putney, admitted driving under the influence of drugs while driving a Toyota Corolla in East Street, Walworth, in July 2020. He was found with an amount of delta-9-THC (cannabis) in his blood, exceeding the limit. Disqualified from driving for 12 months. Fined £400, £65 surcharge, £85 costs.

ANAS AHMAD ARSHAD

Aged 22, of Martin Way, Rayne’s Park, admitted drink driving a Mercedes in Kingston Road, Wimbledon, in March 2021. He was found with 71 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath, exceeding the limit. Fined £120, £34 surcharge, £85 costs. 17-month driving ban with the provision for a 17-week reduction if by February 27, 2022, he has completed a course approved by the secretary of state.

NICHOLAS MARTIN

Aged 23, of Kale Road, Erith, admitted drink driving a Ford Focus in Central Way, Thamesmead in August 2020. He was found with 5.5 microgrammes of delta-9-THC (cannabis) per litre of his blood, exceeding the limit. Disqualified from driving for 18 months. Fined £120, £34 surcharge, £85 costs.

KAITAWEEPAN POOLOGARAJAH

Aged 25, of Borstal Street, Rochester, admitted drink driving a Volkswagen Golf on the M20 in March 2021. He was found with 45 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath, exceeding the limit. Fined £103, £34 surcharge, £85 costs. 36-month driving ban with the provision for a 36-week reduction if by May 17, 2023, he has completed a course approved by the secretary of state.

JOHN WILLIAMSON

Aged 34, of Stokes Road, Croydon, admitted drink driving a Vauxhall Zafira in Middleton Road/Peterborough Road, Stton, in November 2020. He was found with 82 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath, exceeding the limit. Referred to Croydon Crown Court for sentencing.

RICKY AMOS

Aged 41, of Broadwater Gardens, Orpington, admitted drink driving a Vauxhall Combo in Farnborough Way, Orpington, in February 2021. He was found with a quantity of alcohol in his urine, exceeding the legal limit. Fined £120, £34 surcharge, £85 costs. 36-month driving ban.

TYLER MARSHALL

Aged 20, of St John’s Drive, Earlsfield, admitted driving under the influence of drugs while riding a Piaggio moped in Garratt Lane, Putney, in July 2020. He was found with 7.2microgrammes of delta-9-THC (cannabis) per litre of his blood, exceeding the limit. Disqualified from driving for 12 months. Fined £120, £34 surcharge, £85 costs.

ABDIRIZAK MUMIN

Aged 21, of Review Road, Brent, admitted driving under the influence of drugs while riding a Honda PES moped in Victoria Avenue, Surbiton, in April 2020. He was found with 5.2microgrammes of delta-9-THC (cannabis) per litre of his blood, exceeding the limit. To do 100 hours of unpaid work in the next 12 months, £95 surcharge, £85 costs. 12-month driving ban.

MICHAEL PATRICK AFONSO

Aged 24, of Graham Road, Mitcham, admitted driving under the influence of drugs while driving a Toyota Corolla in Wandsworth Road, Clapham, in May 2020. He was found with 7 microgrammes of delta-9-THC (cannabis) per litre of his blood, exceeding the limit. Fined £440, £44 surcharge, £85 costs. 20-month driving ban.

ALEX GUSHLOW

Aged 36, of Teak Close, Surrey Quays, admitted driving under the influence of drugs while driving a Mini in Southwark Park Road, Bermondsey, in October 2020. He was found with 3.7 microgrammes of delta-9-THC (cannabis) per litre of his blood, exceeding the limit. Fined £250, £34 surcharge, £85 costs. 12-month driving ban.

GEORGE BREWER

Aged 46, of Layhams Road, Keston, admitted drink driving a Ford Transit in Arnhem Drive, New Addington, in March 2021. He was found with 91 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath, exceeding the limit. Fined £120, £34 surcharge, £85 costs. 23-month driving ban with the provision for a 23-week reduction if by July 17, 2022, he has completed a course approved by the secretary of state.

MARCIN BILSKI

Aged 37, of Dowsett Road, Tottenham, admitted drink driving a Volkswagen Golf in Bromley Road, Catford, in March 2021. He was found with 73 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath, exceeding the limit. Bailed until May 2021 pending pre-sentence report.

HITEN PATEL

Aged 49, of Arbuthnot Lane, Bexleyheath, admitted driving under the influence of drugs while driving a Tesla Model S in Upton Road, Bexleyheath, in December 2019. He was found with 3.1 microgrammes of delta-9-THC (cannabis) per litre of his blood, exceeding the limit. Fined £600, £60 surcharge, £1,209 costs. 12-month driving ban.

BOBBY LEE

Aged 30, of Springfield Grove, Charlton, admitted driving under the influence of drugs while driving a Hyundai in Orpington High Street, in October 2020. He was found with a quantity of delta-9-THC (cannabis) in his blood, exceeding the limit. He was also found with a quantity of Benzoylecgonine in his blood, exceeding the limit. Bailed ahead of sentencing later this month.

ANTONIO JAMES MIRESSE

Aged 23, of Hatch Road, Norbury, admitted driving under the influence of drugs while driving a Honda in Kidbrooke Park Road, Blackheath in July 2020. He was found with a quantity of delta-9-THC (cannabis) in his blood, exceeding the limit. Fined £147, £34 surcharge, £85 costs. 12-month driving ban.

LUCA DINO TENAGLIA

Aged 33, of Broadfield Road, Catford, admitted drink driving a Mercedes in Shurlock Avenue, Swanley, in March 2021. He was found with 57 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath, exceeding the limit. Fined £120, £34 surcharge, £85 costs. 3-year driving ban.

RASENDRAM SENTHURAN

Aged 32, of Randlesdown Road, Bellingham, admitted drink driving a BMW in Quince Road, Lewisham, in March 2021. He was found with 50 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath, exceeding the limit. Fined £461, £46 surcharge, £85 costs. 12-month driving ban with the provision for a 12-week reduction if by October 27, 2021, he has completed a course approved by the secretary of state.

ZEARO WALTERS

Aged 39, of Lakeview Road, Streatham, admitted drink driving a vehicle in Lawrie Park Road, Sydenham, in March 2021. He was found with 71 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath, exceeding the limit. Fined £120, £34 surcharge, £85 costs. 17-month driving ban with the provision for a 17-week reduction if by March 1, 2022, he has completed a course approved by the secretary of state.

SANDEEP AUJLA

Aged 25, of Ashburnham Road, Belvedere, admitted drink driving a Seat Ibiza in Rochester Close, Sidcup, in March 2021. She was found with 67 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath, exceeding the limit. Fined £461, £46 surcharge, £85 costs. 18-month driving ban with the provision for a 18-week reduction if by March 25, 2022, she has completed a course approved by the secretary of state.

LIANNA PRINCE

Aged 34, of Wooldridge Close, Feltham, admitted drink driving a Ford Focus in Eltham Hill Road, Eltham, in March 2021. She was found with 47 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath, exceeding the limit. Fined £120, £34 surcharge, £85 costs. 14-month driving ban with the provision for a 14-week reduction if by December 19, 2021, she has completed a course approved by the secretary of state.

SLARVSWARAN CHANDRARUBAN

Aged 25, of Longhurst Road, Hither Green, admitted drink driving a Volkswagen Golf in Nightingale Grove, Hither Green, in March 2021. He was found with 67 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath, exceeding the limit. Bailed pending further appearance at Woolwich Crown Court.

SUKHVINDER SIDHARH

Aged 48, of North Hyde Road, Hayes, admitted drink driving a Mercedes in Raleigh Gardens, Mitcham, in December 2020. He was found with 121 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath, exceeding the limit. Prison sentence of 12 weeks, suspended for 24 months. Must seek treatment for alcohol dependency for six months. Ordered to comply with any instructions to attend appointments or to participate in any rehabilitation activity as required up to a maximum of 30 days. £128 surcharge, £85 costs. 42-month driving ban.

PIUS ADELEKE TELLA

Aged 42, of Fairlawn Court, Charlton, admitted drink driving a Chevrolet in Bird in Bush Road, Peckham, in January 2021. He was found with 83 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath, exceeding the limit. Bailed pending further appearance at Woolwich Crown Court. Fined £135, £34 surcharge, £85 costs. 6-month driving ban and 10 penalty points.

KAPITHAN VIJAYAKUMAR

Aged 20, of Ockley Road, Croydon, admitted drink driving an Audi in Green Wrythe Lane, Carshalton, in February 2021. He was found with 71 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath, exceeding the limit. Fined £400, £34 surcharge, £85 costs. 18-month driving ban with the provision for a 18-week reduction if by March 25, 2021, he has completed a course approved by the secretary of state.

DEREK FRANCIS

Aged 55, of Kender Street, New Cross, admitted drink driving a Citroen in Clifton Way, New Cross, in December 2020. He was found with 92 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath, exceeding the limit. To do 80 hours of unpaid work in the next 12 months, £95 surcharge, £85 costs. 24-month driving ban.

ROSALIE-ANNE MULAMBA

Aged 26, of Kingwood Apartments, Deptford, admitted drink driving a Mercedes E-Class in Charles Coveney Road, Camberwell, in November 2020. She was found with 90 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath, exceeding the limit. Ordered to do 60 hours of unpaid work. £95 surcharge, £85 costs. 23-month driving ban with the provision for a 30-week reduction if by April 7, 2022, she has completed a course approved by the secretary of state.

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“At one with the darkness that will consume you.”

» ABOUT

NAME: Daniel Black  AGE: Twenty Eight POWER: Darkness Manipulation  OCCUPATION: Up to Player TOWN: Grimstone Point

» HISTORY

Danny had the perfect life as he was growing up. He lived in luxury, both parents were very well known lawyers and even though they couldn’t give him the attention he needed they could always afford to give him anything else that he could possibly want. Due to the fact Danny had no real role model or was ever set any sort of boundaries growing up, he became quite destructive. Danny often got angry when things didn’t go his way but really it was just a front for what really bothered him, the lack of affection from both of his parents. However, Danny never once had to pay the price for his actions, since either he would buy himself out of them or his parents would step in and defend their child.

Danny wasn’t all bad though–no kid really is–he was simply expressing his issues the only way he really knew how. However, when someone gave him the time of day and really cared for him, the young man also returned the sentiment. As he got older he continued down the same path of being destructive and buying anything he could possibly want. One thing he didn’t have to worry about buying was the attention from his classmates; Daniel was quite the popular jock. All the girls wanted him to give them the time of day and all the guys looked up to him, something that made his already big ego grow bigger. Then on his sixteen birthday Danny discovered that he was much more special than he originally thought, he possessed a super power. Frightened about the discovery, Daniel tried to keep the power hidden from everyone until one day while talking with his father, something that happened rarely, he let it slip. At first his father didn’t believe him but once Daniel showed him, the older man stormed out of the room. For months the Black household seemed like anything but the home of a small family. His parents barely spoke to the young man which made Danny even more disruptive.

One night as he returned home from a football game Danny was greeted by two men who worked for Lake Grimstone, his parents had turned him in. Daniel left that night without saying a word to his parents and to this day he has never tried reaching out to them, not that they have either. It’s been a few years since Danny arrived at Lake Grimstone and while he likes to pretend that he is okay and in total control, he is not. Danny is unable to let people get close to him every time that someone is close to breaking the barrier that he has put up, he ends up sabotaging the relationship. There is only one good and steady relationship for Danny and that is the one he has with the government. He is thankful to them for having given him the opportunity to not only train and master his power but also for getting him out of the toxic home environment that he had been in, not that he would admit that to anyone.

» CONNECTIONS

CRYSTAL COHEN - His ex-girlfriend and the only girl he ever truly allowed to get close to him. no matter how bad Danny wanted it to work he couldn’t shake his player ways and he ended up cheating on Crystal. He still cares about her and all he wants is to make sure that she is okay.

ROSALIE MOORE - Rosalie sought Danny out when she first arrived at Lake Grimstone and after a few conversations a friendship and training partnership blossomed. Having her power be so similar to his helped both of them learn more about their own powers. 

SOPHIA MIDDLETON - He enjoys messing with the girl, mostly because he knows how devout she is and part of him wants to see if he can make her fall. 

Daniel Black is a OPEN character and is portrayed by Matthew Daddario,  whose FC is NEGOTIABLE.

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below the cut are all of the muses that i need things for pls & thnks

primary / secondary muses (read about them here):

rylee agrona (elizabeth olsen fc)

faye beck (jamie chung fc)

selene donovan (natalie dormer fc)

dante fierro (g-eazy fc)

summer garcia (selena gomez fc)

julian gilbert (jon hamm fc)

sofia gonzalez (selena gomez fc)

flynn hamell (charlie hunnam fc)

tenley harding (barbara palvin fc)

fallon hartell (marie avgeropoulos fc)

roman kingston (zane holtz fc)

orion milano (diego barrueco fc)

kai nicholls (ricky whittle fc)

adonis parrish (jesse lee soffer fc)

thea stevens (sophia bush fc)

dahlia taylor (margot robbie fc)

jagger torres (dj cotrona fc)

sage turner (emilia clarke fc)

nadia vilaro (cindy kimberly fc)

ALL of my new test muses (more about them here):

freya antonacci (ana de armas fc)

shadia bridgewater (dove cameron fc)

hayes carlisle (meghan markle fc)

francisco castillo (rafinha fc)

matthias forrester (sebastian stan fc)

april gonzalez (adelaide kane fc)

rosalie herman (alexandra daddario fc)

dex giroux (max irons fc)

hudson middleton (dominic sherwood fc)

theodore powell (jamie dornan fc)

silas tatum (theo james fc)

nyla vargas (zoey deutch fc)

nicholai vogel (aaron taylor-johnson fc)

ansel walton (matthew daddario fc)

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Os seguintes chars encontram-se em hiatus até o dia 06/01:

Rosalie Theirin

Alice Frye

Anastasia Romanov

Mikhail Yanov

Os seguintes chars encontram-se em hiatus até o dia 16/01:

Caleb Wood

Michaela Wright

Nathan Faulkner

Aiden Middleton

Joan Wood

Bryce Marchand

Garret Lancaster

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Portrait of an active fleet – the Royal Navy in the last 7 days

In the past few years, the mainstream media and assorted critics have taken great delight in reporting how the Royal Navy fleet is “broken down”, “stuck in port” or has somehow been relegated to “a coastal defence force”. A snapshot of the fleet in early February 2017 shows that despite its many problems, the RN currently has vessels deployed in most of the world’s oceans. 

The RN may be threadbare by its historical standards but it is worth remembering that only the US, and possibly the Chinese, navy exceed this level of activity. Each vessel and unit deployed represents a very long logistic chain of people conducting planning, training, maintenance etc. The RN leadership attracts criticism from many quarters but the level of impact being achieved, given its severely constrained manpower and resources, reflects well on its management. Next time a larger than usual number of ships are alongside for Christmas or Summer leave periods, it would be helpful to remember what the RN is able to deliver for the majority of the time. This photo essay is far from exhaustive but attempts to show some of the activity of the RN in the past 7 days.

PACIFIC. HMS Sutherland visited The British Island Territory of Diego Garcia last week, the first stop on her tour of the Pacific region. She is now on her way to Australia. A single warship has limited military significance but her presence is useful for defence diplomacy, reinforcing friendships with our allies and a reminder to adversaries how far the RN can reach.

BLACK SEA. SNMG2 Flagship HMS Duncan prepares to berth ahead of HMS Enterprise in Constanta, Romania. The RN has increased its participation in NATO groups in recent years, this is Duncan’s second spell as SNMG2 flagship in the past 12 months. When relieved by HMS Bulwark, she will deploy to the Gulf region. (Photo: NATO MARCOM)

BLACK SEA. Romanian minesweeper ROS Lt. Lupu Dinescu prepares to raft up with SNMCG2 (Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group 2) flagship HMS Enterprise. (Photo: NATO MARCOM)

ADRIATIC SEA: HMS Echo visited the Port of Bar, Montenegro, she is currently assigned to the EUNAVFOR operation SOPHIA migration patrols. ( image @defence_mne )

ATLANTIC / MEDITERRANEAN. RFA Wave Knight delivered a large quantity of fuel oil to Gibraltar ahead of the arrival of HMS Queen Elizabeth. The carrier is not yet ready to conduct replenishment at sea. (Photo: David Sanchez / @86_dmjs)

ATLANTIC / MEDITERRANEAN. HMS Somerset provided escort for HMS Queen Elizabeth when she visited Gibraltar 9th-12th February

MEDITERRANEAN. HMS Albion departs Gibraltar after brief visit to transfer stores and personnel. She is on her way to relieve HMS Duncan as flagship of SNMG 2. (Photo: @hms_albion)

ATLANTIC / MEDITERRANEAN. Although not yet a fully operational warship, HMS Queen Elizabeth attracted much attention as she made her first overseas visit to Gibraltar. The “aircraft carrier with no aircraft” has 6 helicopters on board and has now headed out into the Atlantic for several weeks of flying trials in challenging weather. (Photo: @Robert1969Rob )

NORWAY. Commander Bond RN, CO 845 Naval Air Squadron on the insertion yomp during the Cold Weather Survival Course (CWSC) as part of Ex Nordic Eagle, held around Bardufoss.

NORWAY. Merlin Mk3A of 845 NAS supporting exercise Nordic Eagle.

ATLANTIC. Towed Array sonar frigate HMS Westminster has been operating in the waters around Northern Scotland as the assigned Fleet Ready Escort. Surveillance above and below the waves is a vital task that has to be conducted in all weathers. There are sometimes two or more RN frigates performing this increasingly important role, which is every bit as important as overseas deployments. HMS Montrose has also been deployed in northern waters, visiting Stavanger and using the NATO weapon and sensor range in Norway.

NORTH SEA. HMS Mersey returns to Portsmouth Naval Base on 12th Feb after a successful patrol of UK waters protecting our fish stocks. (image: @CaptainMFP )

BALTIC. HMS Cattistock is serving with NATO Mine Countermeasures Group 1 and visited Oslo, Norway this weekend.

ARABIAN SEA. RFA Cardigan Bay is permanently deployed in the Gulf region, based in Bahrain and supporting coalition warships including the 4 RN minehunters; currently HMS Blyth, HMS Ledbury, HMS Bangor and HMS Middleton. (Photo @HMSBangor)

ARABIAN SEA. RFA Fort Rosalie conducting a replenishment at sea with USNS Matthew Perry, part of the USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier strike group (CSG-9) on operation Inherent Resolve – the fight against ISIS. ASaC Sea Kings from 849 Naval Air Squadron, flying from RFA Fort Rosalie also provide airborne surveillance in the region.

CARRIBEAN SEA. RFA Mounts Bay remains on a long deployment in the Caribbean region, currently visiting Bridgetown, Barbados.

ENGLISH CHANNEL. RFA Tidespring conducts RAS with Norwegian frigate Helge Ingstad during Operational Sea Training in the SW exercise areas last week. The 4 Tide-class tankers are at various stages on their way to join the fleet and will give the RN the largest number of support ships possessed by any European navy, by a considerable margin. The strength of the RFA is foundational to the RN’s ability to operate around the globe. (Photo: @matt_bromage)

SOUTH ATLANTIC. HMS Clyde is permanently assigned to the Falkland Islands as guardship.

ANTARCTICA. HMS Protector delivers supplies and equipment to the British Antarctic Survey base at Rothera Research Station on the Antarctic Peninsula at the end of January. She continues to support the BAS, currently, she is in the Weddell Sea.

At least 2 Astute or Trafalgar class submarines are probably at sea right now

This is the Vanguard class submarine currently on patrol and carrying the nation’s nuclear deterrent.

from Save the Royal Navy http://www.savetheroyalnavy.org/portrait-of-an-active-fleet-the-royal-navy-in-the-last-7-days/

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accepted

Sejam bem-vindos ao Spector Camp, Lorenzo Bianchi, Cameron Westlen, Jane Middleton e Rosalie Brighton! Esperamos que seu verão conosco seja inesquecível. Liz, Bia e Winter por favor, não se esqueçam de enviar as contas dentro de 24 horas!

Taron Egerton, Matthew Daddario, Lily James e Zoey Deutch agora encontram-se indisponíveis.

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Rosali — Bite Down (Merge)

Rosali Middleton experienced a lot of change in the lead up to recording her fourth solo album, Bite Down. She relocated to North Carolina and changed labels to Merge Records. Some constants remain. Her collaboration with Mowed Sound, a group of players who work with a number of artists, continues. The recording is also augmented by keyboardist Ted Bois, who melds well with the rest of the musicians.

Rosali’s interest in experimentation, which she has explored under other monikers, has gradually infiltrated her solo work. She goes the furthest to date towards it on Bite Down, which includes noise elements that distress the edges of songs that could easily be successfully presented in more straightforward contexts.Pinpointing Rosali as rock or folk or country is overly reductive. She takes things song by song, with varying styles and approaches.

The album opens with “On Tonight,” featuring briskly overlapping rhythm guitar riffs, some by Mowed Sound, but Rosali plays guitar as well as sings. There is an arcing  melody in synth strings and, a signature for Bite Down, multi-tracked vocals. Rosali’s voice has an impressive range, from low alto to dulcet soprano. “Rewind” is a love song with lyrics about seeking stability in a romance. Its chorus provides a memorable hook: “I love you, And I know you love me too, Be the same you, I’ll rewind for you.”

“Hills on Fire” is one of my favorite songs on Bite Down. Country adjacent, it features a keening vocal melody and East Nashvillian arrangement. The extended slide guitar introduction is succeeded by a winsome vocal and several solo breaks. This is Rosali’s voice at its most gentle, cooing in her upper register.

The title track is something of a feature for Bois, whose electric piano sets a mid-tempo syncopated groove buoyed by the rhythm section, and synths that add sustained tones ghosting the vocals. Mowed Sound particularly distinguishes themselves here. Biting down is taken here as grasping at what’s real, with which the narrator struggles. There’s also a veiled reference to Virginia Woolf’s suicide: “I keep on walking, Putting rocks in my pocket, I’m drawn to the docks and Eternal Life.” Ultimately, we learn that it is a plea for help from a beloved: “Everything has a price, What’s it worth to you?” The music belies the sobering subject matter, but also lets us know there remains a suppleness of step that, we hope, will afford the narrator the courage to turn away from the water. “Is It Too Late” depicts the murky mornings of depression, with a resolve to keep going. Here, the moody guitar riff and florid singing match the challenges depicted in the lyrics.

Rocking out is on the menu, particularly evident on the penultimate track, “Change Is in the Form,” a doppelganger of a Neil Young song with attractive layered backing vocals juxtaposed with an inexorable groove and duo guitar solos. “Hopeless” has a strong backbeat and a number of instrumental breaks. It is about accepting the end of a relationship while remembering its previous laughter and joy. “Slow Pain” immediately follows, and its musical vibe and lyrics suggest it is a companion (estranged companion) song: “​Have you seen my grief? Hold it so I don’t spill out, Keep quiet and wait it out.” It has one of the most extended guitar solos on the album, which closes the song with verve and virtuosity. Such plaintive lyrics occasionally make bopping one’s head to the memorable tunes seem like a guilty pleasure. The connections between pleasure and pain seem to coalesce in much of Rosali’s work, and it is the better for it.

Bite Down ends with an extended song, “May it Be On Offer,” which clocks in at five and three-quarter minutes. It has a slow paced, loping rhythm, once again with overlapping guitars, both acoustic and electric, that presents a stark contrast to “Change Is In the Form.” Its vocal melody, again country adjacent in construction, sits in the mid-register, sung with a repeating melody in speech-like declamation. The lyrics depict contemplation of the struggles that have come before on the recording, with a pointed question asked by so many that serves as the album’s enigmatic close: ​​”And I’ll sit for hours, Gazing at the light, And I do wonder, If I waste my life. No, I don’t wonder, If I waste my life.”

This is for certain, no time is wasted listening, likely again and again, to Rosali’s compelling emotional journey on Bite Down.

Christian Carey

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Various Artists — Stop MVP: Artists from WV, VA and NC Against the Mountain Valley Pipeline (War Hen)

The Mountain Valley Pipeline, if it’s ever finished, will stretch over more than 300 miles in rural Wester Virginia and Virginia, crossing environmentally sensitive parts of the Allegheny and Blue Ridge Mountains carrying dangerous, polluting loads of fracked gas. The League of Conservation Votes estimates that the pipeline will generate more than 89 million metric tons of greenhouse gas pollution annually, about as much as 24 average U.S. coal plans or 19 million passenger cars. Building it will require razing forests that have been sequestering carbon for centuries.

It’s a climate catastrophe, and because it runs through an area that is rich in musical history and culture, it has become a focus for artists and activists, including Daniel Bachman, who organized this 40-track compilation in protest of the pipeline. All proceeds from STOP MVP will go to the Appalachian Legal Defense Fund to support protesters resisting the pipeline’s construction.

That is, of course, one compelling reason to buy this set of music, but it is very far from the only one. The music here is exceptionally diverse and almost uniformly excellent. If you look at the cover and envision a steady stream of earnest folk songs, punctuated by some fingerpicking, think again. Certainly that’s represented on these two discs, but so is noise and rock and punk and hip hop and even, at the end, a stirring piece of gospel that will steel you for the cause.

There’s so much music here that it’s hard to get a grip on it all, but let’s hit some highlights. Magic Tuber String Band’s haunted, haunting rendition of “Undone in Sorrow” is both staunchly traditional and absolutely modern in its lament for a natural world gone haywire. Isak Howell, similarly, finds something potent and bracing in minor key picking. Solar Hex straddles baroque classical cello and folk lament, and there are indeed four crows cawing in the background to “Stone Wall with Four Crows.” My favorite discovery in this lengthy, skewed-folk all-star line-up comes from Høly Riot’s “Spirit Riot,” which kicks up a feeling-the-lord-speaking-in-tongues ruckus with its driving, droning ecstasies.

Some of the cuts are literally about the MVP pipeline, like Joshua Vana and Bernadette “BJ” Lark’s full-throated, heart-swelling “To the River,” while others reference the area’s long history of industrial subjugation. “The Dolly Womack Wreck” retells the story of an old-time train wreck, where the engineer was flayed alive by steam from a broken boiler. “The Coal Tattoo,” sung by Bachman’s father, is about his father’s death in a mine explosion. The hip hop/electronic “John Brown” by Appalachian rapper Prolo chronicles generations of poverty and racism in the region.

A lot of well known folk and indie artists have chipped in. There are tracks from Sally Anne Morgan, Ned Oldham, Nathan Bowles, Rosali Middleton (as Edsel Axle). Yasmin Williams and Bachman himself. But the real tribute to Bachman’s taste, restless song-hunting and open-minded-ness comes from the bands you might not be familiar with, the eerie soundscapes of Tallulah Cloos, the beefy country rock of Tucker Riggleman and the Cheap Dates, the unhinged noise of Dog Scream. The mountains and valleys threatened by MVP are rich in plant and animal diversity, but also musical breadth, and this compilation brings them all together for a worthy cause.

Jennifer Kelly

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Jerry David DeCicca — New Shadows (Bwatue)

Jerry David DeCicca once fronted the dark folk Black Swans, alongside his friend Noel Sayre, a soulful foil on violin, who tragically died in a swimming pool accident in 2008. DeCicca kept going, first as Black Swans, later under his own name, building a catalogue of subtle, country flavored songs, some heartbreaking in their simplicity, others giddy and adorned with animal sounds. Along the way, he has shepherded a slew of long-lost country singers through their re-emergence, producing late career albums for Ed Askew, Chris Gantry, Augie Meyers and Will Beely. He seemed a lot like the icons he worked with, a master craftsman unfairly overlooked. Of his last album before this, I wrote, “This album distills the craft and struggle of music making into gorgeous, deceptively simple-sounding songs like it’s nothing, but it’s not nothing, far from it.”

Cut to this fifth solo album, and it is somewhat disorienting to find DeCicca’s mordant murmur enmeshed in a gothy web of synthesizers. His worn-in country sprech-song holds court in shimmery electric architectures. The keyboards glow in the dark. He follows programmed pulses that hurtle onward even as he pauses to consider. Even so, it still sounds like DeCicca, the lyrics are casually incisive, the humor a little goofy, the melodies rebel country at a very high level, but it also sounds like the inside of a disco.

The album reflects the disruptive events of the last few years, in lyrics that describe a video funeral (“Sing”) and in others that mark the listless passage of time (“I know life ain’t a free ride, wash up, dishes are piling high, lost days, lost days” from “Lost Days”). The use of electronics may also be an artifact of that pandemic period where live collaboration became difficult; this may have lasted longer for DeCicca than other people, given some recent health troubles.

But also the pandemic opened up collaboration for a lot of artists, in ways that ignored physical proximity. I don’t know if that’s the case for this group of players, but they are a remarkably diverse group—two old hands from Los Lobos (David Hidalgo and Steve Berlin), a brace of new jazz tyros (James Brandon Lewis, Jeff Parker and Aquiles Navarro of Irresistible Entanglements) and the wonderful Rosali Middleton. They bring depth and color and human roughness to these unusually pristine electronic tracks. Listen, for instance, to the two sax players, Steve Berlin with his guttural, low-end swagger in “97 Nights,” Lewis more refined and fluid but just as soulful on contemplative “Lost Days.” Or consider the burning blues guitar licks that David Hidalgo adds to “Sing,” all smoke and sinew amid the synths and keyboards. He reminds me of prime era Mark Knopfler in the way he bends the notes and coaxes them to moan.

Yet fundamentally this is DeCicca’s show, and its success rides on his songwriting ability. Not to worry. “Angelina” is one of his finest songs ever, a still one full of darkness and yearning, and the curlicues of trumpets that Navarro adds amplify, but don’t overwhelm its gorgeous simplicity. “Manzanita Bay” is another good one, a little mournful as presented here, but you could imagine it turning into a sing-along stomper in other, less ruminative hands.

New Shadows is a bit of a departure, and its New Order-style goth-dance framing takes some getting used to. But it’s still DeCicca, still one of the best songwriters going, just through a different lens.

Jennifer Kelly

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Chris Forsyth — All Time Present (No Quarter)

All Time Present by Chris Forsyth

The murk has cleared. The drone has turned to warm ambient hum. All Time Present radiates bright, positive energy in pinwheeling, ecstatically repeated riffs and vamps that spring off the blocks like sprinters on the first warm day of track season.

Chris Forsyth’s album was darkened somewhat by the anxious fog that many of us experienced post-2016 election. Bill Meyer wrote two years ago that Dreaming in the Non-Dream was different from previous outings with the Solar Motel Band. “To the best that mostly instrumental music can articulate non-musical experience, it sonically renders the business of hunkering down and figuring out who has your back,” he said. But now, though politics have turned, if anything, more ominous, the music blossoms into ebullience. The opening salvo, “Tomorrow Might as Well be Today,” spirals exhilaratingly from the get-go, little bits of sunshine-y Mellotron bursting from among giddy guitar grooves, a breezy transcendentalism evoking Citay and PG Six.  

Forsyth’s band is much the same, though not identical, to his crew on the last record. Shawn Hansen, a collaborator since Intensity Ghost, again contributes keyboards, mellotron and saxophone. Peter Kerlin, on holiday from Sunwatchers, lays in a nimble, celebratory bass. The new guy, Ryan Jewell, constructs the hard, rhythmic architecture that keeps these swirling, head-trips earthbound; his steady thump is all that tethers “Mystic Mountain” to solid ground. And Jeff Zeigler, recently spotted adding airy electronics to Mary Lattimore’s harp songs, stops by with a vintage Onde Magnetique cassette synthesizer for “The Man Who Knows Too Much.” Its ghostly, shape-shifting whistle embues the tune with madeleine crumbling remembrance of things past.

The center-piece, however, is “Dream Song,” an 11-minute psychedelic folk overture whose wiggy guitar pyrotechnics are overlaid, intermittently, with the cool, murmured singing of Rosali Middleton. It’s a gorgeous song—it along with “Mystic Mountain” demonstrate that Forsyth is getting comfortable with incorporating vocals—and it has some of the same trippy intensity of Heron Oblivion’s long-form songs, “Rama” and “Your Hollows.”

Forsyth has learned a lot from Television, and here, even as the sole guitar player, he gets off some very Marquee Moon-ish sprees. “Techno Top” echoes the twitchy tensions of “Friction” and “Prove It,” then opens out into joy-riding, love-of-the-game anarchy as the song proceeds. The guitar work in “Dream Song,” too, is very fine, raggedly blues-y and spare at the beginning but swelling into squalls and waves of drone-y, eastern-toned psychedelia.  

All Time Present is a guitar players album, but more than that, a songwriter’s work. Though intricate and highly dependent on skill, the songs sing out loud; they don’t nudge you elbow-wise to make sure you’re appreciating the difficulty. It’s been a long couple of years and the spring is taking forever, but the sun’s breaking out at last on this wonderful album.

Jennifer Kelly