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An American Holiday weekend means a slow week, so we're doing this quick hit style: Highlights : * Dream Wife - So When You Gonna... (Great sophomore effort.) * Little Kid - Transfiguration Highway (Solid, unexpected indie folk turn.) * Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (Soundtrack from the Netflix movie, checks all the right boxes.) * Cocktails - Catastrophic Entertainment (Power pop lives!) * bdrmm - Bedroom Of note : * A.A. Williams - Forever Blue * Willie Nelson - First Rose of Spring * Cuddle Magic - Bath * Marchelle Bradanini - Only a Woman * Denai Moore - Modern Dread * Heather Leigh - Glory Days * Too Much - Club Emotion * Suzanne Vallie - Love Lives Where Rules Die * LEECHES - Swollen Moon * Nelson Can - Solo Desire: Remixed Together, Volume 2 (Synthesized) EPs : * Moon Panda - Make Well EP (Don't sleep on "Rick F**in Dalton.") * Twin Peaks - Side A * Flock of Dimes - Like So Much Desire * Lynks Afrikka - Smash H...

Toronto's Little Kid get compared a lot to fellow Canadian Neil Young. Hopefully they don't mind that comparison since their latest single isn't going to do anything to dispel those. "I Thought That You'd Been Raptured" is a ramblin' 60's style folk song with some modern pop and indie elements. The song has more of an upbeat feel to it than you might expect by my description, but there is a bit of humor to it as well. Kenny Boothby explains the song: "This song is one of the most purely fictional songs I’ve written.  It’s essentially all built around a joke I came up with where a man comes home early from work and finds his wife’s clothes around the house, but his first thought is that she has been raptured and he has been left behind. Of course, it turns out she is sleeping with someone else in the bedroom upstairs… "Musically and lyrically, this is one of the songs I’m most proud of… I’m especially happy to have found a way to showcase ...

Toronto's Little Kid exist in a world that mixes folk and indie rock with heavy leanings towards artists like Neil Young. Their latest single, "All Night (Golden Ring)," is a duet between band members Kenny Boothby and Megan Lunn. Despite the song not being country at all, it's inspired by the relationship between Tammy Wynette and George Jones. The country superstars were a real life couple who also collaborated musically quite frequently. The couple divorced due to abuse from Jones. Their solo careers weren't as successful as their work together, so they recorded Golden Ring , which was their first ever number one album.  Kenny Boothby explains how "All Night (Golden Ring)" is related:  “ I was really saddened to read about that, and to picture how that must have felt for Tammy .  I can’t relate directly, but as a survivor of abuse, I can only imagine what it would feel like to have to sing with my abuser, much less to have to sing love songs wit...