Indie Folk & In-Between

Goodbye To The Valley Low (Side B)

Old Salt

crooked the road.

doing my best

Leap Year

Nobody

Lou Reed

Freezing

Freezing (Better with Laci) [feat. Laci Kaye Booth]

Purple Flowers

Calimocho Moon

Calimocho Moon (Bonus Track)

Tongue Tied

Anyways, I Love You

Anyways, I Love You (Better with Allen) [feat. Allen Stone]

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Wolves of Worry

A cinematic spoken-word performance built around the metaphor of life as a film. “Life like a Movie” drifts through memories, missed cues, abandoned storylines, and characters we once were — all unfolding in a slow, atmospheric narration. With minimal music supporting the emotional weight, each line feels like a frame from a movie we’re still trying to understand.
A reflective, haunting piece for fans of dramatic poetry and cinematic storytelling.

Life like a Movie

My good friend has created “Nashville City Limits” as a songwriter’s reckoning — a soulful, storyteller-driven album about chasing music, chasing truth, and learning where your own limits really are.
These songs blend acoustic warmth, country-folk heart, and Nashville-flavored lyric honesty, each track unfolding like a page from a road-worn journal.
It’s part love letter, part warning flare, part confession from a woman who’s learned the price of dreams and the cost of settling.
If you’ve ever stood on the edge of something big — wondering if it’ll break your heart or set you free — this record will feel like home. 
Description by; Jake Hargrove music writer

A Songwriters Tears

Angry Verse is the third entry in Volant Records’ Verse Series, following Anxious Verse and Thankful Verse.
This album gives voice to the full weight of human anger — frustration, injustice, heartbreak, betrayal, holy indignation — while grounding every song in Scripture.

Each track lets emotion rise honestly and intensely through expanded verses and instrumental movements, then steadies the listener with a direct Scripture-Chorus lifted word-for-word from the Berean Standard Bible.

The sound is raw, cinematic, and devotional: low piano, tense strings, dark pads, deep percussion, and searching acoustic textures.
As with the rest of the Verse Series, every song is anonymous, allowing the lyrics and Scripture to take center stage.

Other albums in the Verse Series include:
Anxious Verse, Thankful Verse, Angry Verse, Lonely Verse, Sad Verse, and Happy Verse.

Be Still Before Him

As a band, Wild Rivers have never been better. This goes double for the band as individuals, even as they settle in different cities and grow into themselves as adults. Together since college, Devan Glover [vocals], Khalid Yassein [guitar, vocals, keys], and Andrew Oliver [lead guitar] have put down roots in new places and tackled coming-of-age obstacles. After nine years together, they’ve always found their way back to each other, rather like a marriage. And that’s why their new, forthcoming album, the follow-up to 2022’s folk-rock triumph Sidelines, will be called Never Better.


An earnest, soul-baring look at where they’ve been and where they’re going, Never Better (co-produced with Gabe Wax, who has previously worked with The War On Drugs, Soccer Mommy, Adrianne Lenker, and Jeremy Zucker) showcases Wild Rivers’ joy around being together, particularly after they’ve faced burnout, mental health challenges, and extended periods away from home, among other things. “Being in music is like a deal with the devil,” Khalid says of band life. “You have to give up so much, but you have the opportunity to have the richest experiences of your life. You have to ride the wave and not put too much weight on the highs or the lows. It took us a long time to learn, but that’s a real mindset shift for us.”


Recording in Joshua Tree, Devan, Khalid, and Andrew initially set out to just unplug, reconnect, and rediscover the beauty in creating. Soon, they realized they potentially had a new record on their hands—the results of which appear on Never Better, an album that finds Wild Rivers letting go of their studio-perfectionist tendencies and capturing the energy of their uninhibited live shows. “We used to think it was important to be precious,” says Devan. “I used to take five hours to record a vocal and not be happy until it was perfect. Now I think we're more instinct-driven. I realize now that it’s  actually much more of a skill to be able to do four takes and be like, ‘that's the one,’ because the feeling is there, even if it isn't technically perfect.”


For Never Better, Wild Rivers reimagined their studio process, recording a number of elements live off the floor. “We actively wanted to have a lot more fun making this record,” Andrew adds of recording as a live band. “It's way more enjoyable to record songs all together and be able to see each other laughing and reacting to moments, rather than slowly building it up one little thing at a time where someone goes into a room by themselves. We wanted to maintain that connection the whole time.” 


As they look to the future, Wild Rivers are placing a new emphasis on finding balance and taking care of themselves on the road. Devan says. “We’ve gone through really difficult times, mentally, and the strain of being on tour can take a toll. Mental health has always been top of mind for us, and we want to find that balance for ourselves and help other people with the issues that we're struggling with."


Wild Rivers’ effortless synchronicity shines through on the gorgeously harmonized anthem “Everywhere I Go,” which builds from a piano-based jog to a full-fledged sprint with propulsive drums and shimmering keys. "I was thinking about my grandpa, who I was very close to. He passed away a few years ago,” Khalid says. “He was the only other musical person in my family. We used to sit at the piano and play together. He was one of the funniest people I've ever met. I was thinking about how something benign can remind you of someone who's gone and how it can elicit a powerful emotion. It’s the positive feeling of holding on to a memory of something that's inherently sad but beautiful and uplifting.”


Elsewhere, on the swaying “Cave”—pieced together in Nashville and London —Wild Rivers sing wanting something regardless of consequence. “It’s about caving to temptation,” Andrew says. “The temptation being something you know might not be the right thing, but you’re down to just give into it.”


Similarly, the bright and cheery title track gives itself over to the thrill—and risk—of romance. "We have so many breakup songs—so many heartache, pouring-our-souls-out songs," Khalid says. "We are in our 20s, we've had fun experiences and made mistakes in life. The concept of the song is when you're in a messed-up, secret hookup situation. And someone asks 'How's it going with this person?' And you say, 'Never better.' It's a tongue-in-cheek reference to romantic chaos and throwing caution to the wind."


Finally, of the earnest piano ballad “Backfire,” Devan says, “The demo I made was piano and vocals, and the band had the idea to make it more crunchy guitar, lean slightly more '90s, which I never imagined when writing it. It's more story-based. It's more of a build. It felt like what we have done best up until this point. It feels like a bridge from what we've been doing to the new era.”


Khalid adds, “As soon as I heard ‘Backfire,’ I was like, ‘Oh, this is completely Devan as a person. I just believed every moment of it. Vocally, you can hear that. We were all moved by that. It's one of our favorites of the record. It’s really emotional, really unabashed.”


Just as Wild Rivers move from one exciting stage of their career to the next, they are very much still figuring out what it means to grow together. Their journey, filled with peaks, valleys, and everything in between, has never been more beautiful to witness.

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