Marlon Williams – My Boy (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Marlon Williams – My Boy (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 35:34 minutes | 727 MB | Genre: Indie Folk, Alt. Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Dead Oceans

My Boy, the third solo record from New Zealand singer / songwriter Marlon Williams, announces an artist emerging anew. Gone is the solemn, country-indebted crooner with the velvet voice – in his place comes a playful, shapeshifting creature.
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Marlon Williams – Live at Auckland Town Hall (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Marlon Williams – Live at Auckland Town Hall (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:28:13 minutes | 974 MB | Genre: Folk, Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Dead Oceans

While Make Way For Love draws on Marlon’s own story, it captures the vagaries of relationships we’ve all been through: the bliss, ache, uncertainty, and bitterness. Like the best breakup records, ‘Make Way For Love’ doesn’t shy away from heartbreak, but rather stares it in the face, and mines beauty from it. Delicate and bold, tender and searing, it’s a mightily personal new step. Make Way For Love was recorded with producer Noah Georgeson and his backing band, The Yarra Benders, in North California’s Panoramic Studios after several weeks of pre-production in his native Lyttelton with regular collaborator Ben Edwards. The finished result moves Marlon several paces from “country” the genre that’s been affixed to him more than any in recent years, but one that’s always been a bit too reductive to be wholly accurate with forays into cinematic strings, reverb, rollicking guitar and at least one quiet piano ballad, on his most expansive work to date.

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Kacy & Clayton & Marlon Williams – Plastic Bouquet (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Kacy & Clayton & Marlon Williams – Plastic Bouquet (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 29:01 minutes | 348 MB | Genre: Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © New West Records

Brought together in 2016 by Jeff Tweedy, the mastermind behind Wilco, Kacy Lee Anderson and Clayton Linthicum are into psychedelic folk of the type seen in the British folk revival of the sixties and seventies. Their sepia-toned melody is enriched with borrowings from Southern Appalachian sounds and country rock (Buffalo Springfield, Gram Parsons, Gene Clark, Sir Douglas Quintet). This time, the two Canadians, distant cousins from Saskatchewan, have opened their arms to Marlon Williams, a stunning New Zealand crooner in the Chris Isaak/Richard Hawley mould, who juggles deftly between rock, country, folk and even soul. Despite the thirteen thousand kilometres separating Christchurch in New Zealand and Saskatoon in Canada, these three came together around their shared passion for folk, vintage country and troubadour traditions. “We wanted to see if we could meld hemispheres,” Williams explains. “I’m bringing this Pacific style of country music with the harmonies and choral elements. Kacy & Clayton have a super identifiable sound. They embody everything I love about North American folk. There’s a rural weariness where they’re telling tales that have been told a million times in their own way. I feel the strength in it… We found a dynamic that worked well, because we all love old Bob Dylan and Merle Haggard and have the same sense of humor.” Plastic Bouquet works because the chemistry and complicity are immediate and total. No-one is trying to hog centre stage, and the mic passes smoothly from hand to hand. These tasteful players know just how to punctuate and colour their timeless storytelling (the organ on I’m Unfamiliar, the steel guitar on Old Fashioned Man); and they know how to make their compositions enticing. Amazing. – Marc Zisman

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