Johanna Samuels - Excelsior!With a special knack for balancing bright pop melodies with a drifting sense of melancholy, LA based Johanna Samuels new album Excelsior! is a tender, honest document of the importance of companionship above all else. Named after Dylans Visions of Johanna, Samuels grew up on the classic songwriters of yesteryear (George Harrison, Tom Petty, Neil Young) and after a healthy dose of Elliott Smith and Jon Brion, has spent the best part of the last decade

instead each track on 'LP1' is brand new

and endless time to tinker

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and Occupy meetings ending in bad love ('Secret Plot to Destroy the Underground')

‘New Material’ does offer some relief

Recorded with Keith Cooper and Andrew McCalla in the band's home-town of Memphis

bassist Libby Hsieh

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