Matthew Logan Vasquez - Solicitor Returns (2016)

Best-known as the co-founder and frontman for shape-shifting, heartland indie rockers Delta Spirit, Matthew Logan Vasquez's fiery delivery and thought-provoking lyrics draw from a huge and versatile well of influences, including Gram Parsons, Kurt Cobain, Neil Young, and Iggy Pop. After releasing Delta Spirit's critically acclaimed fourth studio album, Into the Wide, in 2014, Vasquez moved with his wife and newborn son to Austin, Texas and began working on what would become his debut solo outing. The resulting Austin EP, which finds Vasquez manning every instrument, and offering up a blistering set of outlaw psych rock, arrived in 2015, with plans to issue his debut long player, Solicitor Returns, in early 2016. ~ James Christopher Monger.