Will Orchard
An artist who deeply disarms the listener by speaking to the core of our collective vulnerability. He began his career in his home state of Rhode Island with the experimental project. LittleBoyBigHeadOnBike. He established a prolific output of 100 EPs and LPs by 2018, often with a lo-fi, homespun touch. Orchard transitioned to an americana-centered sound under his own name, while maintaining the gently atmospheric and introspective qualities of his former project. he has since toured the US and much of Europe, and has supported Liz Longley, Y La Bamba, Josiah Johnson, and The Brazen Youth. Having released four EPs and LPs as Will Orchard, both independently and with Brooklyn-based label, Better Company Records, he has been praised by PopNews, Glide Magazine, The Wild Honey Pie, Atwood, and more as a unique, emerging voice in folk music. Now based in Nashville, he is currently back in his natural environment of self-production, with an in progress-LP slated to release in 2025.

Caley Conway
Partner is Conway’s first full-length release since 2019’s Surrounded Middle. It’s wonderful to hear her luxuriate in the space afforded by these ten gorgeous and deliberately paced tracks, escaping reality one minute and tussling with the physical the next. “I’ll submit my work to them / When I am dead and resting / And singing never” she concludes on the incredible “Singing Never.” Thankfully she’s not there yet. Here is Partner, as well as Conway herself, in dreams and elsewhere, submitted for acceptance. Alive and restless and singing forever.

--Milwaukee Record