Kevin Bronson on July 31st, 2014

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Evan Koga is not a new face to fans of finely crafted folk music – the SoCal native was part of the quartet Chief, which he formed with a bunch of his NYU schoolmates and which released the album “Modern Rituals” on Domino Records in August 2010. With Chief having splintered, the Santa Monican has continued to write and record under the name Koga. His EP “Not Much Is Going on Today,” released in June, is a four-pack of lushly produced folk in approximately the same vein as the more melancholy material on the Chief album. The EP, with production by Louie Stephens and Matt Creed, features Max Fields on bass, Julian Harmon on drums and a lovely vocal turn from Julia Tepper on “All the Way Home.” Like British phenom Jake Bugg, Koga displays a little Dylan in his vocal delivery, which suits his lyrical musings just fine.

||| Stream: “Mountains of Evil” and “Lucky Man,” or the whole EP here