The New Cue #529 September 19: Joan Shelley, Kieran Hebden & William Tyler, Dead Dads Club, Makaya McCraven, Hatchie, White Lies, EERA, Courtney Marie Andrews, Silvana Estrada

"It could be Chelmsford. It could be Bolton."

Good morning,

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Ted and Niall

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Ted Kessler

I can find comfort in many things: in The Big Match Revisited on ITV 4, in all kinds of foods I should not, in afternoons at The Prince Charles or, mostly, in pubs. Musically, lots of artists provide comfort, but over recent years I’ve come to realise that the warm, lush folk-adjacent tones of Joan Shelley is a fail-safe. Her new album, No Quarter, is released today and though, atypically for Shelley, it was recorded with a an ensemble largely drawn from the ranks of the Weather Station in midwinter in Toronto, across the border from her new Michigan home, there’s something reliably soothing in these gentle songs about standing wistfully on the edge of middle-age, aware she’s falling irresistibly down its well.