Interview
Sibille Attar released her debut album,
Sleepyhead, in 2013. It s taken the odd Swedish songwriter eight years to finally follow it up, wiith the release of her second record,
A History Of Silence.
It took such a long time between LPs for a variety of reasons: Attar extracting herself from a major label contract ( I had a lot of anger to the situation, she says), getting knocked up , experiencing motherhood, and, then, finally, wondering how she was going to return to a career that was put on hold. It took some time to understand how I was going to re-enter the music business without feeling shit about myself, says Attar. In a conversation with Anthony Carew on The International Pop Underground, the 39-year-old speaks candidly about her life and times, and how that led to the making of
New Music Reviews (2/22) KEXP
Each week, KEXP’s Music Director Don Yates (joined this week by DJ Alex) shares brief insights on new and upcoming releases. See what s coming up this week below, including reviews for new releases from
The Hold Steady,
This Brooklyn-via-Minneapolis band’s excellent eighth studio album is their strongest since 2008’s
Stay Positive, featuring an expansive, dynamic and revitalized sound on richly detailed songs with soaring guitars, bright keyboards, punchy horns and more accompanying some of Craig Finn’s more captivating narratives of characters surviving on society’s margins, with the album’s main themes revolving around power, wealth and mental health. DY
Live at O’Leaver’s tomorrow (12/11), and they ve shared one more single ahead of that, a soulful Connie Smith cover with vocals from Conor s ex-wife, Corina Figueroa Escamilla.
THE AISLERS SET - COLD CHRISTMAS 90s/ 00s era indie band The Aislers Set went dormant in the mid- 90s and this track dates from 2010. How could they have kept this wonderful, warm holiday song from the world for 10 years?
Here s another single from Swedish artist Sibille Attar s upcoming
A History of Silence. “For a long time in my life, I tried to sit in certain constellations to please other people,” Sibille says. “And it didn’t work, because I could only do it for a little while before I’d get frustrated and want to do things my own way. There was a time when I felt like I couldn’t trust the business, and it was draining me of my love for the music. Eventually, I realised you can’t live your life trying to fit into somebody else’s mould all the time.” With thundering drum