Thomas Dollbaum 2027

These songs find Dollbaum searching for acceptance in the transient in-between places: Florida's pine flatwoods, backroads leading to I-95, where birds fly across the water. And even though the ghosts of his alt-country predecessors Townes Van Zandt and Jason Molina are definitely present, on Birds of Paradise, Dollbaum emerges from their shadows - waving to the past, sounding all the more like himself. "There hasn't been a more exciting burst of Southern-inflected guitar rock this year than this full-length from the New Orleans-based songwriter Thomas Dollbaum.

" - Rolling Stone's Best Albums of 2026 So Far "If Dollbaum's music once painted a vivid portrait of all the low places he's been, then on Birds of Paradise, he sounds all the more confident in showing us where he wants to go next. " - Pitchfork, 7.8 "exceptionally deep and lovely-dusky, melodic, just a little bit dangerous-sounding" - The New Yorker "Dollbaum's lyrics are like Southern gothic short stories, the sort that don't end well" - Mojo ????