ACL 2025 ~ The Happiest Music of the Year

Are you in the mood for some happy music?  We’ve got just the list for you!  The artists on this year’s list know that life can be tough, and offer literal notes of encouragement.  One finds beauty in the mundane;

Shelf Nunny ~ I Think I’m Finally Happy

As we noted in our review of Pronoia, Shelf Nunny can’t help but make happy music, even when feeling unhappy; and now, finally, he may have reached that peaceful plateau.  The unusual appeal of the last EP was that the chapters could

Shelf Nunny ~ Pronoia

Pronoia is the opposite of paranoia: the idea that fate is conspiring for a person, that others’ intentions are benign, and that everything is working toward the good.  While this attitude, like paranoia, may exist outside of reality, it may also become a

Shelf Nunny ~ Utangátta

Utangátta holds up a mirror to our times, to that extent that one might suspect the presence of an intervening hand.  Shelf Nunny recorded the album after a period in which he struggled financially, lost many people close to him, and plodded