Family Stereo - The Thread Format:Blue Vinyl LP 2022 marks the 20th anniversary

2022 marks the 20th anniversary of the passing of James Stinson and the releases of the Transllusion and Shifted Phases albums

lyric-forward country-rock in active rotation—putting their point of origin back in circulation even as their new music keeps widening

finely crafted

A companion to 2016's private country rock overview Cosmic American Music

The original 1986 version was a b-side of ‘Hello Friend’

Family Stereo - The Thread Format:Blue Vinyl LP 2022 marks the 20th anniversaryA clear sense of confidence in restraint radiates out of the debut album from Blake Watt, the London based singer songwriter who records as Family Stereo. The pleasure lies in the delicacy of measure on The Thread, an album of folk tinged and brush stroked reflections on distance and connection that majors in an evocative kind of narrative economy, suggesting rather than telling its stories. Inviting, dynamic and subtly cinematic, its artfully crafted