Album Reviews

Much like the twisted figure with a robot head that comes creeping into the bedroom at the start of the music video for Bovine Nightmares’ “Giving Little Robots to Children,” the first couple of bars in the song drift into focus rather ominously. It doesn’t take more than a couple …

A simple strumming of the guitar speckled with a palm-muted lead is waiting to welcome us after pressing play on the new music video and single “Go Do That With Sharon” from David Haerle’s Death Valley, but as stone cold as this instrumentation is, it’s just the tip of the iceberg …

Terry Blade is an R&B and soul singer from Chicago, Illinois. Blade’s songs may primarily highlight issues among the black and queer demographics, but his raw, unpolished emotion resonates universally. Back in late March, his debut single, “The Unloveable,” was certified gold via DistributeKings.com, having accumulated over 500 thousand combined …

Lamb of God, ‘Lamb of God’ Epic Records June 19, 2020 It has been five long years since thrash mainstays Lamb of God released an album of new material (2015’s “VII: Sturm und Drang), and during the greatest pandemic to strike the world in recent memory, Lamb of God has …

If you keep up with the Montreal music scene, odds are you probably already know about Gianni Bodo. A fixture of the growing epicenter of Canadian music, Bodo returns to the international spotlight once more this spring with his all-new single, “Hurricanes and Butterflies (Flowers Don’t Die)” featuring Brigitte Pace …

A subtle picking of an acoustic guitar is all that we’re met with in the opening bars of Jim Lord’s powerful new single “Helplessly I Fell,” and while these first twenty seconds are quite spellbinding for anyone who has a taste for acoustic balladry, they’re but a small preview of …

The glow of a pristine harmony shadows every instrument we hear in Francine Honey’s “I Carry On.” Regardless of which version of this all-new single you’re listening to, solo or the Robert Gray-featured duet, you’re guaranteed to feel the signature chills this composition sets off whenever it’s played, no matter …

JTK doesn’t have time for the sonic filler that a lot of his closest rivals on the mainstream side of the dial would contend with in his new single with Tunji, “No Be Mouth.” To be perfectly honest, the pair don’t have much room for anything other than purely muscular …

Headed by Michael Coleman, ‘See Your Shadow’ is a collaborative songwriting and production team based in Phoenix, Arizona. Collaborative efforts provide the ability for multiple musicians to contribute their skills to create a song, sometimes remotely, which is particularly relevant given the ‘work from home’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic. …

Gary Burk III’s “Like That” opens with a line we’re all going to wish we had written, “everybody wants a love that makes everybody else want to love like that.” The closing track of his 2020 album, “Show ‘Em What You Got,” the song has the makings of a true …

Combining gentle guitars, a bittersweet beat and a vocal that melts hearts on the spot isn’t necessarily a new concept when developing a single, but when Cary Park does it in his song “You Matter to Me,” he elevates the role that each of these components has to play. Park …

With a swaggering strut, a string melody comes into focus, suddenly enrapturing anything within earshot of its vibrant glow. This sensuous instrumental element is hypnotic to say the least, but once it comes into contact with Julie Amici’s lead vocal for the first time, it doesn’t stand a chance in …