The Key Studio Sessions Volume 20 | cover photo by Rachel Del Sordo
Download The Key Studio Sessions Volume 20 (featuring Palm, Sammus, Sorority Noise, Slaughter Beach, Dog and more)
Just in time for your Labor Day weekend rotation, we present you with 16 standout artists from all corners of the Philadelphia music community, performing live at WXPN Studios and recorded for The Key Studio Sessions.
In this, the 20th edition of our regular scene-surveying compilations, we hear veterans — the breezy psychedelic pop of Circadian Rhythms, the pensive and Pink Floydian neuroses of Queen Jesus — and we meet relative newcomers — like atmospheric emo four-piece Small Circle and driving riff rockers Honeytiger. As always, there’s stylistic variety: rapper Ivy Sole lowkey rocks the mic and experimental instrumentalists Palm get weird with interlocking licks and askew rhythms; Katie Frank brings some heartland-y country torch and twang and Ellen Siberian Tiger dials up the studied musical theatrics.
We teamed up with the folks at Folkadelphia to co-present sessions with SΔMMUS and Harmony Woods, captured a beautiful solo electric performance by Sorority Noise‘s Cameron Boucher, mellowed out to windswept Bossa Nova-flavored jazz by Ensemble Novo, and cheered Jake Ewald on as Slaughter Beach, Dog jammed on “104 Degrees” for a roaring six minutes. And, as always, there’s more still, in great performances from basement show staples coping skills and ominous electronic soundscaper Harrowgrove.
Listen to The Key Studio Sessions Volume 20below, and grab a free download on Soundcloud.
Thanks as always to those who made this happen: production assistant Rachel Del Sordo for all-around support, Team Folkadelphia (that’s Fred Knittel and James Clark Connor) for collaborating on the Sammus and Harmony Woods sessions, as well as photographers Emma Silverstoneand Tiana Timmerberg andvideographers Jeremy Zimmerman and John Groome for sharing their work.
To peruse our Key Studio Sessions Archives, go here and to download previous Key Studio Sessions compilations, go here.